U+16AE5 "𖫥" Bassa Vah Letter Pa Unicode Character

U+16AE5 "𖫥" Bassa Vah Letter Pa is a glyph representing a specific consonant sound in the Bassa Vah script, which was historically used to write the Bassa language spoken by the Bassa people of Liberia and Sierra Leone. This alphabet was devised in the early 20th century by Dr. Thomas Narvin Lewis, drawing on indigenous syllabic traditions, and it serves a cultural and linguistic purpose in preserving the Bassa identity. The letter Pa denotes the sound /p/ and belongs to a script that, despite falling into disuse for much of the 20th century, has seen renewed interest through digital encoding and revival efforts.