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Tresillo (letter)

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The tresillo

Tresillo (capital: Ꜫ, small: ꜫ; Spanish for "little three") is a letter of several colonial Mayan alphabets in the Latin script that is based on the digit 3. It was invented by a Franciscan friar, Francisco de la Parra, in the 16th century to represent the uvular ejective consonant // found in Mayan languages, and is known as one of the Parra letters. In cursive form, the tresillo is often written ⟨c ̑ ⟩.

As an example of use, the word for fire in the Kaqchikel language, qʼaqʼ, is written ꜫaꜫ in the Parra orthography.[1]


Character information
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Unicode name LATIN CAPITAL LETTER TRESILLO LATIN SMALL LETTER TRESILLO
Encodings decimal hex dec hex
Unicode 42794 U+A72A 42795 U+A72B
UTF-8 234 156 170 EA 9C AA 234 156 171 EA 9C AB
Numeric character reference Ꜫ Ꜫ ꜫ ꜫ

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References

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  1. ^ Uocabulario copioso de las lenguas cakchikel y ꜭiche. Guatemala. p. 570.
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