VAI SYLLABLE LENGTHENER character

VAI SYLLABLE LENGTHENER
U+A60C
42508
ꘌ
ꘌ
Lm (Modifier Letter)
L (Left-to-Right)
N
0
Vai
0
BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
0000-FFFF
ꘌ












VAI SYLLABLE LENGTHENER is a modifier letter from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of VAI SYLLABLE LENGTHENER is Left-to-Right (Strong). It belongs to the strong left-to-right characters..

The Left-to-Right (L) bidi class is assigned to characters that are written from left to right. This includes most alphabetic characters from Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and other scripts that are typically written in this direction. The presence of L characters in a text influences the overall text directionality in bidirectional contexts.

Modifier Letter (Lm) refers to characters that are small, typically superscript or subscript, letters used to modify the meaning of another character. These are not full letters in themselves but serve to modify other characters in linguistic or phonetic contexts.

This character belongs to the Vai block. The Vai block includes characters used in the Vai script, which is used to write the Vai language spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone. The Vai script is a syllabary, where each character represents a syllable rather than an individual phoneme. The script was developed in the early 19th century by Momolu Duwalu Bukele, who was inspired by a dream to create a writing system for his people. The Vai script is still in use today, particularly for writing religious texts, personal letters, and cultural documents. This block includes characters for all the syllables used in the Vai language, as well as a few additional marks for punctuation..