Multani Letter Ta

It is the Multani script’s letter for the ta consonant. The name “ta” labels the consonant sound this letter contributes inside a word. Historical correspondence tables pair it with Arabic-script ت, Gurmukhi ਤ, and Devanagari त as matching ta letters; each belongs to a different script.

Multani developed from Landa, an earlier script tradition, in the 18th century. It served practical record-keeping and later appeared in literary print. The earliest printed example discussed in the Unicode encoding proposal is a Multani New Testament from 1819. Multani is historically connected with Gurmukhi and more distantly with Khudawadi and Khojki, other South Asian scripts.

Why does 𑊖 look different or fail to appear?

Its outline varies, and font support controls whether it appears. The 2012 Unicode encoding proposal compares Multani forms in print and handwriting from 1819–1916. These forms give 𑊖 more than one outline; a difference in shape does not by itself make it a different letter.

Multani writes consonant clusters with separate letters and usually leaves vowels unmarked in running text. It uses no virama, a mark that suppresses a consonant’s inherent vowel, so the surrounding letters help supply the reading. A blank box means the active typeface lacks a glyph for Multani; keyboard input and display are separate.