Lam with tah above

Lām with tah above (, ࣇ, also known as "Arabic letter Lām with small Tah above" or "arlām") is a character used in the Kalasha and Shahmukhi script as additional letter.^[1]

Lām with small tah above
ࣇ
Usage
Writing system	Arabic script
Type	Abjad
Language of origin	Kalasha, Kalasha-mun
Sound values	[ɭ] [ɫ]
In Unicode	U+08C7
History
Development	ل ࣇ
Transliterations	ळ ਲ਼ ಳ ળ
Other
Writing direction	Right-to-Left
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

It was added to Unicode in 2020 (in version 13). Due to the recency of this addition, support is still limited among widely fonts. It is possible to approximate the letter using the character combination لؕ.^[2]

History

The earliest source which attested a use of an arlam glyph identified in discussions of the proposed Unicode character was Muhammad Yar's 1792 Afarinish Nama. Though present in some older works, most writing historically has not included a character for the Punjabi phoneme it represents, and there are other characters which writers have used to represent this sound in the absence of a standard for it. Gurmeet Kaur's 2017 'Fascinating Folktales of Punjab' was printed with a version of the lam glyph with a dot beneath, mirroring the differentiation present on lalle pair bindi in Gurmukhi.^[3][4][5]

Forms

Position	Isolated	Final	Medial	Initial
Image
Text	ࣇ	ـࣇ	ـࣇـ	ࣇـ

Character encoding

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

Font support

As of August 2022, these font families support U+08C7:

• PakType
• NoName Fixed
• Noto Nastaliq Urdu
• Scheherazade New

See also

• ٹ
• ڻ
• ݨ
• ڈ
• ڑ