U+10A91 "𐪑" Old North Arabian Letter Alef Unicode Character

U+10A91 "𐪑" Old North Arabian Letter Alef is a script symbol used in the ancient writing system of Old North Arabian, a group of scripts employed across the Arabian Peninsula from roughly the 8th century BCE to the 4th century CE. Like the letter Alef in other Semitic alphabets, it represents a glottal stop sound and is often the first letter of an abjad or consonantal alphabet in this script. This character is part of a broader Unicode block, the Old North Arabian range, which aims to preserve and digitize inscriptions found on rocks and artifacts, primarily from regions like modern-day Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for accurate digital representation and study of these historical texts, shedding light on pre-Islamic Arabian languages and cultures.