Garay small letter Ga

It is Garay’s lowercase letter for the g sound.

Senegalese artist and writer Assane Faye created Garay for Wolof, and it was first published in January 1961. The design fits Wolof sounds and was intended to feel familiar to people who knew Arabic writing while remaining simpler. Faye’s primer pairs this letter with Latin g, which has the same sound value here.

Garay also has a written history: Faye produced textbooks, folktales, maps, and a Wolof Qur’an with translations between the lines. A 2024 Unicode description notes use in women’s groups and adult literacy for Mandinka as well as Wolof, while describing the user community as small. Wolof is also written in Latin script and in Wolofal, an Arabic-based form of Ajami. Garay shares Arabic’s right-to-left direction, but it is a distinct script.

Someone sent me 𐵹 — what is it?

By itself, it is a Garay letter or sample.

A single 𐵹 may be shown as a character sample, used in a lesson, or appear as part of a right-to-left Garay word. Read it in the context of the surrounding text or conversation; the letter alone does not give enough information to infer a personal message.

How do you type and display 𐵹?

Use a Unicode input method, and set the text direction to right to left.

Garay letters do not join to one another like Arabic letters. If software treats the surrounding text as left to right, the text’s directional order may look wrong. As of 27 April 2026, orthography notes describe their Garay font as an early prototype, so a missing or poorly placed glyph can be a font issue.