U+1A06 "ᨆ" Buginese Letter Ma Unicode Character

U+1A06 "ᨆ" Buginese Letter Ma is a character from the Buginese script, used historically and in modern contexts to write the Buginese language of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. It represents the consonant sound "ma" and belongs to the Lontara script, a Brahmic-derived abugida where each character inherently includes the vowel /a/ unless modified by diacritics. This specific letter is part of the Unicode block for Buginese, encoded to support digital preservation and communication of the language's traditional writing system.