U+1044A "𐑊" Deseret Small Letter El Unicode Character

U+1044A "𐑊" Deseret Small Letter El is a letter from the Deseret alphabet, a phonetic writing system developed in the mid 19th century by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints, primarily under the direction of Brigham Young, to simplify English spelling and promote literacy among Mormon pioneers. This specific character represents the sound /l/ as in the English word "light" and corresponds to the lowercase form of the Deseret letter El, with its uppercase counterpart being U+1041A. Although the Deseret alphabet saw limited use in a few published works and school primers during the 1850s and 1860s, it never achieved widespread adoption and eventually fell out of common use, making this character a historical artifact preserved in the Unicode standard for scholarly and digital representation.