U+10496 "𐒖" Osmanya Letter A Unicode Character

U+10496 "𐒖" Osmanya Letter A is a character from the Osmanya script, which was invented in the early 20th century (around 1920) by Osman Yusuf Kenadid for writing the Somali language in Somalia. This specific character represents the vowel sound /a/ and is one of the 32 letters in the script. Osmanya was an attempt to create a native alphabet for Somali, distinguishing it from the Latin and Arabic scripts also used for the language, though its use declined over time and it was not widely adopted.