U+A8A8 "ꢨ" Saurashtra Letter Ba Unicode Character

U+A8A8 "ꢨ" Saurashtra Letter Ba is a glyph representing the consonant "ba" in the Saurashtra script, which is historically used to write the Saurashtra language primarily in the Tamil Nadu region of India. This character belongs to the Saurashtra block of the Unicode standard, encoded to preserve and digitally represent the script, which descended from the Brahmi family and is used for both modern and classical texts. The letter itself functions as a basic consonant sound, and like other characters in the script, it requires the addition of vowel signs to indicate different vowel sounds.