U+10498 "𐒘" Osmanya Letter I Unicode Character

U+10498 "𐒘" Osmanya Letter I is used in the Osmanya script, a writing system created in the early 20th century for the Somali language designed to replace the Latin and Arabic scripts. It represents the vowel sound /i/, similar to the “i” in the English word “machine”. This character is part of the Osmanya block within Unicode’s Supplementary Multilingual Plane and is read from left to right, belonging to a script that reflects a cultural effort to standardize Somali orthography before later being supplanted by the Latin alphabet in official use.