U+10380 "𐎀" Ugaritic Letter Alpa Unicode Character

U+10380 "𐎀" Ugaritic Letter Alpa is the first letter in the Ugaritic alphabet, which was used to write the Ugaritic language, an ancient Semitic language spoken in the city-state of Ugarit in modern-day Syria during the Late Bronze Age. This cuneiform script, inscribed on clay tablets, represents a consonant sound similar to the glottal stop or the aleph sound in other Semitic languages. The letter Alpa is encoded in Unicode as part of the Ugaritic block, which was added in version 4.0 in 2003 to support the digital preservation and study of this extinct writing system. It provides historians and linguists with a way to accurately represent and analyze ancient texts, such as the famous Ugaritic religious epics.