Adlam Nukta

Adlam Nukta at U+1E94A is a combining mark used with Adlam letters to extend the script for additional sounds. It belongs to the Adlam Unicode block and functions as a diacritic, not as an independent letter or punctuation mark. In practical Adlam writing, the nukta is placed on a base letter when Fulfulde or related orthographies need a consonant value that is not covered by the plain Adlam alphabet. It is especially relevant in educational materials, dictionaries, keyboards, and transcriptions that aim to represent regional pronunciations or borrowed sounds precisely. Because it is a combining character, it should be entered after the letter it modifies and will normally appear attached to that letter rather than standing alone. The main gotcha is text matching: a modified Adlam letter made with this nukta is encoded as a sequence, so search, sorting, and font rendering need proper Adlam support to treat the combination correctly.