U+11493 "𑒓" Tirhuta Letter Nga Unicode Character

U+11493 "𑒓" Tirhuta Letter Nga is a glyph representing the velar nasal sound /ŋ/, akin to the 'ng' in the English word "sing," within the Tirhuta script. This script, historically used to write the Maithili language primarily in the Mithila region of Bihar, India, and parts of Nepal, is an abugida where each character inherently contains a vowel sound. The letter Nga is the third consonant in the Tirhuta alphabet and follows the letter Kha, serving as an essential component in writing a variety of native and loanwords in Maithili. Despite its rich historical and cultural significance, the Tirhuta script, and therefore this character, is now rarely used in everyday writing, having been largely supplanted by the Devanagari script, though efforts exist to preserve and revitalize it.