U+113BF "𑎿" Tulu-Tigalari Vowel Sign Vocalic L Unicode Character

U+113BF "𑎿" Tulu-Tigalari Vowel Sign Vocalic L is a diacritical mark used in the Tulu-Tigalari script, an abugida historically employed to write the Tulu language in southern India. This combining character is placed above or attached to a consonant to indicate the presence of a vocalic L sound, a rare syllabic vowel where the letter L functions as the nucleus of a syllable. As part of the newly encoded Tulu-Tigalari block in Unicode, it represents a crucial feature for preserving and digitally representing the phonetic nuances of the Tulu language, which has a rich literary and oral tradition in the coastal region of Karnataka.