U+1139B "𑎛" Tulu-Tigalari Letter Nya Unicode Character

U+1139B "𑎛" Tulu-Tigalari Letter Nya is a script character representing the consonant sound "nya" in the Tulu-Tigalari alphabet, which was historically used to write the Tulu language and occasionally other regional languages like Kannada and Sanskrit in the southwestern coastal region of India. This character is part of a recently encoded Unicode block, added in version 16.0 in 2024, reflecting ongoing efforts to digitally preserve and support lesser-known scripts. Its design features the distinctive curved and looped strokes characteristic of the Tigalari script, which is closely related to the Grantha and Malayalam writing systems, and it plays a key role in accurately representing the phonetic inventory of Tulu words that contain the palatal nasal sound.