U+1170D "𑜍" Ahom Letter Ra Unicode Character

U+1170D "𑜍" Ahom Letter Ra is a glyph from the Ahom script, an abugida historically used to write the Ahom language, a now extinct Tai language once spoken in the Brahmaputra Valley of present-day Assam, India. Representing the consonant sound "ra," this character is part of a larger set of letters and characters that were used to record Ahom chronicles, rituals, and administrative documents from the 13th to the 18th centuries. The Ahom script was ultimately replaced by the Assamese and Bengali scripts, and its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve endangered or historical writing systems for modern digital use and scholarly study.