U+10374 "𐍴" Old Permic Letter Ya Unicode Character

U+10374 "𐍴" Old Permic Letter Ya is a letter from the Old Permic script, also known as Abur, which was used in the 14th to 17th centuries to write the Komi and related Uralic languages in the Perm region of Russia. This specific character represents a vowel sound, typically transcribed as "jä" or "ja," and it belongs to the "Old Permic" Unicode block, which was added in version 7.0 of the Unicode Standard in 2014. The Old Permic script was created by the missionary Saint Stephen of Perm to translate religious texts, and its letter Ya is derived from the Cyrillic or Greek alphabet, modified with distinctive indigenous features to suit the phonetic needs of the Permic languages.