U+1050D "𐔍" Elbasan Letter I Unicode Character

U+1050D "𐔍" Elbasan Letter I is a character from the Elbasan script, an alphabetic writing system historically used in the 18th and 19th centuries primarily in central Albania to write the Albanian language. This particular character represents the vowel sound /i/ and is part of a script created by the Albanian scholar and Catholic bishop, Gregory of Durrës, or others in the Elbasan region, to encourage literacy and the spread of Christian texts among Albanian speakers. The Elbasan alphabet, of which this letter is a component, was largely superseded by the Latin-based Albanian alphabet in the 20th century but remains of interest to historians and linguists for its role in the early recording of the Albanian language.