U+1171A "𑜚" Ahom Letter Alternate Ba Unicode Character

U+1171A "𑜚" Ahom Letter Alternate Ba is a character in the Ahom script, a historical abugida used to write the now-extinct Ahom language of the Tai people in present-day Assam, India. This specific glyph represents an alternative form of the consonant "ba," which is used in the writing system that was primarily employed for recording chronicles, religious texts, and legal documents from the 13th to the 18th centuries. The inclusion of such alternate letterforms in the Unicode Standard helps preserve the orthographic diversity found in historical Ahom manuscripts, ensuring that digital representations accurately reflect the script's scribal variations.