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Cuatrillo
Letter of many colonial Mayan alphabets in the Latin script From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
The cuatrillo
The cuatrillo with comma
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]
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Unicode
The Cuatrillo was added to Unicode in March, 2008 with the release of 5.1.
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