U+10F00 "𐼀" Old Sogdian Letter Aleph Unicode Character

U+10F00 "𐼀" Old Sogdian Letter Aleph is the first letter of the Old Sogdian alphabet, an ancient script used primarily from the 4th to the 8th centuries CE to write the Sogdian language, an Eastern Iranian language of Central Asia. This character represents the glottal stop or a long vowel sound, analogous to the Semitic aleph from which it is derived, and it played a foundational role in the development of later writing systems, including the Uyghur and Mongolian scripts. As part of the Unicode standard, it preserves the historical and linguistic heritage of the Sogdian civilization, enabling modern scholars and digital platforms to accurately encode and display this ancient script.