Multani letter Ttha

𑊑 is a consonant letter in Multani. The Latin spelling “ttha” identifies this consonant; it is not a full pronunciation guide or a separate message meaning. Multani was used to write Seraiki, so read the character as part of a word.

Multani writes vowels as separate letters rather than marks attached to consonants, and consonant clusters with separate letters too. The neighboring letters and the word supply the information needed to read a syllable; 𑊑 alone does not.

What was Multani writing used for?

Multani served regional writing, including practical and commercial work. It is a Landa-based script used for Seraiki around Multan and northern Sindh. The earliest printed example dates to an 1819 New Testament, after a Baptist missionary press prepared metal type for Christian literature. That date marks print evidence, not the script’s origin.

During the latter half of the 19th century, British administration established Arabic script as the standard for languages of Sindh. By the first quarter of the 20th century, Multani writing shows spelling changes: some letters could represent more than one sound.

Multani belongs to the Landa family: it is related to Gurmukhi and more distantly to Khudawadi and Khojki. These are script relationships; their letters are not interchangeable.

Why does 𑊑 look different in different fonts?

Historical Multani had no single standard glyph shape. Surviving printed and handwritten forms differ, so fonts can give 𑊑 different outlines without changing the encoded letter.

If it appears as a box or blank, the app may lack a font with Multani coverage or its fallback may have failed. A different outline alone does not mean a different letter.