U+16A82 "𖪂" Tangsa Letter Iq Unicode Character

U+16A82 "𖪂" Tangsa Letter Iq is part of the Tangsa script, which was added to the Unicode Standard in 2019 with version 12.0 to support the Tangsa language spoken by the Tangsa people in northeastern India and neighboring parts of Myanmar. This letter represents a vowel sound in the Tangsa alphabet, specifically the /i/ phoneme with a distinctive glottalized or creaky tone often associated with the name "Iq." Its inclusion in Unicode enables digital preservation and typing of the Tangsa language, which has a rich oral tradition and is now being documented in written form to support literacy and cultural heritage. The character is classified under the Tangsa block and is encoded as a basic letter for writing modern Tangsa orthography.