U+108E0 "𐣠" Hatran Letter Aleph Unicode Character

U+108E0 "𐣠" Hatran Letter Aleph is the first letter of the Hatran alphabet, a script used to write the Hatran Aramaic language in the ancient city of Hatra, located in present-day Iraq. This character represents the glottal stop consonant sound typically associated with the Semitic letter Aleph, and it was employed in inscriptions dating from roughly the late 2nd century BCE to the 3rd century CE. The Hatran script, which was added to the Unicode Standard in 2016 as part of version 9.0, consists of 28 letters written from right to left, and this particular letter plays a foundational role in the alphabet by often marking the beginning of a word or indicating a vowel in certain contexts.