U+109A4 "𐦤" Meroitic Cursive Letter Ya Unicode Character

U+109A4 "𐦤" Meroitic Cursive Letter Ya is a glyph used in the Meroitic Cursive script, which was employed to write the Meroitic language of the ancient Kingdom of Kush, located in present-day Sudan. This specific character represents the syllabic sound "ya" and is part of a cursive form derived from the earlier Meroitic Hieroglyphic signs, adapted for everyday writing on ostraca and papyrus. The Meroitic script itself remains only partially deciphered, but the letter Ya, along with other characters, was used primarily between the 3rd century BCE and the 4th century CE before the script fell into disuse.