Ethiopic syllable Raa

It writes the r consonant with the a vowel.

Ethiopic consonant families change shape with each vowel; ራ is the r-series’ a form, used inside words.

South Arabian settlers and stoneworkers brought the Sabaean alphabet to Tigray around the eighth century BCE. Inscriptions show Ethiopic writing by the second/third centuries CE; vowel notation made it syllabic by the fourth century CE. The script served royal inscriptions, later Geʽez liturgy and literature, and Amharic, Tigrinya, and Tigre. By 2017, descriptions recorded regional and individual differences in its letter shapes.