U+113BD "𑎽" Tulu-Tigalari Vowel Sign Vocalic R Unicode Character

U+113BD "𑎽" Tulu-Tigalari Vowel Sign Vocalic R is a combining diacritical mark used in the Tulu-Tigalari script, which is historically employed to write the Tulu and Sanskrit languages in the southwestern regions of India. This specific vowel sign represents the vocalic R sound, a syllabic consonant that functions as a vowel in many Dravidian and Indic phonetic systems. It is placed after a base consonant character to modify its inherent vowel, producing a distinct syllabic pronunciation. The inclusion of this character in the Unicode Standard helps preserve and digitally encode the unique orthographic features of the Tulu-Tigalari script, supporting modern computational use for texts and scholarly work related to these linguistic traditions.