ࣇ

Lām with small Toe
	ࣇ
Usage
Writing system	Arabic script
Type	Abjad
Language of origin	Punjabi, Kalasha-mun
Phonetic usage	[ɭ]; [ɫ]
Unicode codepoint	U+08C7
History
Development	ل ࣇ;
Transliteration equivalents	ळ; ਲ਼; ಳ; ળ
Other

ࣇ, (Arabic letter Lām with small Tah above (U+08C7) - لؕ,[note 1] known as ArLām) is an additional letter of the Arabic script, added in Unicode 13 for the Punjabi Language (in Shahmukhi alphabet)[1] to represent a Voiced retroflex lateral approximant and is also used in the Kalasha language.[2]

Forms

Position	Isolated	Final	Medial	Initial
Form	ࣇ	ـࣇ	ـࣇـ	ࣇـ
Images
Footnote:	Users will need to install the PakType Naskh Basic typeface to see the character

Character information
Preview	ࣇ
Unicode name	ARABIC LETTER LAM WITH SMALL ARABIC LETTER TAH ABOVE
Encodings	decimal	hex
Unicode	2247	U+08C7
UTF-8	224 163 135	E0 A3 87
Numeric character reference	ࣇ	ࣇ

Evans, Lorna Priest; Malik, Muhammad Ghulam Abbas (1 May 2019). "Proposal to encode ARABIC LETTER LAM WITH SMALL ARABIC LETTER TAH ABOVE in the UCS" (PDF). Unicode. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
L.Trail, Ronald; R. Cooper, Gregory (1999). Kalasha Dictionary —with English and Urdu (PDF). Quaid-i-Azam University: National Institute of Pakistan Studies. pp. xiv. ISBN 9698023097. Finally, the to'e is also used to distinguish the Kalasha dark ḷ (ࣇ) from the light l (ل)

Due to lack of encoding support for this character, currently, the only way most users will be able to view this character is by combing ل + ؕ = لؕ, however this is only a compound of two separate characters and is not the same as ࣇ.

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