U+113A8 "𑎨" Tulu-Tigalari Letter Ba Unicode Character

U+113A8 "𑎨" Tulu-Tigalari Letter Ba is a glyph representing the consonant "ba" in the Tulu-Tigalari script, an abugida historically used to write the Tulu language in the southwestern Indian region of Tulu Nadu, particularly for liturgical and literary texts. This script, which is distinct from other Brahmi-derived scripts of the area, was encoded in Unicode version 16.0 released in 2024 to aid in digital preservation and the revival of Tulu linguistic heritage. The character symbolizes a voiced bilabial stop sound and is part of a larger cultural effort to document and make accessible the ancient writing systems of southern India.