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.
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
[edit]The Cuatrillo was added to Unicode in March, 2008 with the release of 5.1.
| Preview | Ꜭ | ꜭ | Ꜯ | ꜯ | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER CUATRILLO | LATIN SMALL LETTER CUATRILLO | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER CUATRILLO WITH COMMA | LATIN SMALL LETTER CUATRILLO WITH COMMA | ||||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 42796 | U+A72C | 42797 | U+A72D | 42798 | U+A72E | 42799 | U+A72F |
| UTF-8 | 234 156 172 | EA 9C AC | 234 156 173 | EA 9C AD | 234 156 174 | EA 9C AE | 234 156 175 | EA 9C AF |
| Numeric character reference | Ꜭ | Ꜭ | ꜭ | ꜭ | Ꜯ | Ꜯ | ꜯ | ꜯ |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]External links
[edit]- Cuatrillo and Tresillo in Recent Linguistic Publications
- N3028: Proposal to add Mayanist Latin letters to the UCS
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