Cuatrillo

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The cuatrillo
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The cuatrillo with comma

Cuatrillo (capital: Ꜭ, small: ꜭ) (Spanish for "little four") is a letter of several colonial Mayan alphabets in the Latin script that is based on the digit 4. It was invented by a Franciscan friar, Alonso de la Parra, in the 16th century to represent the velar ejective consonant /kʼ/ found in Mayan languages, and is known as one of the Parra letters.

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A derivative of the cuatrillo by adding a diacritic, ⟨Ꜯ ꜯ⟩, was used for the alveolar ejective affricate /tsʼ/ found in the same languages.

As an example of use, the letter appears when spelling the name of the Kʼicheʼ language in the Parra orthography: ꜭiche. [1]

Unicode

The Cuatrillo was added to Unicode in March, 2008 with the release of 5.1.

Character information
PreviewꜬꜭꜮꜯ
Unicode nameLATIN CAPITAL LETTER CUATRILLOLATIN SMALL LETTER CUATRILLOLATIN CAPITAL LETTER CUATRILLO WITH COMMALATIN SMALL LETTER CUATRILLO WITH COMMA
Encodingsdecimalhexdechexdechexdechex
Unicode 42796U+A72C42797U+A72D42798U+A72E42799U+A72F
UTF-8 234 156 172EA 9C AC234 156 173EA 9C AD234 156 174EA 9C AE234 156 175EA 9C AF
Numeric character reference ꜬꜬꜭꜭꜮꜮꜯꜯ

See also

References

  1. ↑ Uocabulario copioso de las lenguas cakchikel y ꜭiche. Guatemala.


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