U+10FE8 "𐿨" Elymaic Letter Teth Unicode Character

U+10FE8 "𐿨" Elymaic Letter Teth is a symbol from the Elymaic alphabet, which was used to write the Elymaic language, a now extinct Middle Iranian language spoken in the ancient region of Elymais, located in what is now southwestern Iran. This specific character represents the consonant sound "t" and corresponds to the letter Teth, a variant of the Phoenician script from which the Elymaic writing system was derived. The Elymaic script, attested primarily on coins and inscriptions from roughly the 2nd century BCE to the 3rd century CE, was closely related to other Aramaic-based scripts of the region, and the letter Teth in particular is notable for its distinctive curved, triangular shape with an internal loop. Today, the character is preserved in the Unicode standard under the Elymaic block, which was added in version 12.0 in 2019 to support digital encoding of this ancient script for scholarly and linguistic purposes.