U+113B1 "𑎱" Tulu-Tigalari Letter Sa Unicode Character

U+113B1 "𑎱" Tulu-Tigalari Letter Sa is a character from the Tulu-Tigalari script, an abugida historically used to write the Tulu language in the southwestern region of India. This specific character represents the consonant "Sa," and it functions within the script as a syllabic unit, where the inherent vowel "a" is implied unless modified by diacritics. The Tulu-Tigalari script, which saw its primary use in palm-leaf manuscripts and inscriptions from around the 12th to the 19th centuries, has seen a modern digital revival, with U+113B1 being part of its encoding in Unicode version 16.0 released in 2024, thereby aiding in the preservation and digital representation of the Tulu language and its cultural heritage.