U+104BA "𐒺" Osage Capital Letter Hya Unicode Character

U+104BA "𐒺" Osage Capital Letter Hya is a letter used in the modern orthography of the Osage language, representing the sound typically transcribed as /hya/ or a similar aspirated or fricative consonant cluster. It is part of the Osage script, which was reformed in its current form in the early 21st century and added to Unicode in 2014 as part of the Osage block. This capital letter functions as a distinct character in the alphabet, used at the beginning of sentences or for proper names, and its lowercase counterpart is U+104E2 "𐓢". The script was developed to accurately represent the phonetics of the Osage language, which is spoken by the Osage Nation in Oklahoma and is part of the Dhegihan Siouan language family.