U+14AB "ᒫ" Canadian Syllabics Maa Unicode Character

U+14AB "ᒫ" Canadian Syllabics Maa is a character from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, representing the syllable "maa" as used in the writing systems of several Indigenous languages of Canada, such as Cree and Inuktitut. This character combines the basic syllabic form for "ma" with a dot placed over the right side of the character, which indicates a long vowel sound, transforming the short "a" into a long "aa". Its creation was part of the broader standardization of Canadian Aboriginal scripts for digital encoding, preserving linguistic traditions that use modified syllabic shapes to denote vowel length.