U+16991 "𖦑" Bamum Letter Phase-E Pum Unicode Character

U+16991 "𖦑" Bamum Letter Phase-E Pum is part of the Bamum script, a writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for the Bamum language spoken in Cameroon, specifically belonging to Phase E, which represents one of the later stages in the script's evolution under King Njoya. This particular character, whose name "Pum" refers to a syllable or phonetic value in the language, is used in historical and modern contexts for writing the Bamum language, and it is encoded in the Unicode standard within the Bamum Supplement block to ensure digital preservation and accessibility of this unique African script.