Cuatrillo (capital: Ꜭ, small: ꜭ) (

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for "little four") is a letter of several

colonial Mayan alphabet The Mayan languagesIn linguistics, it is conventional to use ''Mayan'' when referring to the languages, or an aspect of a language. In other academic fields, ''Maya'' is the preferred usage, serving as both a singular and plural noun, and as ...

s in the

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that is based on the digit 4. It was invented by a

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friar,

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, in the 16th century to represent the velar ejective consonant found in

Mayan languages The Mayan languagesIn linguistics, it is conventional to use ''Mayan'' when referring to the languages, or an aspect of a language. In other academic fields, ''Maya'' is the preferred usage, serving as both a singular and plural noun, and as ...

, and is known as one of the

Parra letters The Mayan languagesIn linguistics, it is conventional to use ''Mayan'' when referring to the languages, or an aspect of a language. In other academic fields, ''Maya'' is the preferred usage, serving as both a singular and plural noun, and as ...

. A derivative of the cuatrillo by adding a diacritic, , was used for the

alveolar ejective affricate The alveolar ejective affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is . Features Features of the alveolar ejective affricate: Occurr ...

found in the same languages. The cuatrillo is encoded in Unicode at the code points and , respectively. The cuatrillo-commas are at and . As an example of use, the letter appears when spelling the name of the

Kʼicheʼ language Kʼicheʼ (, also known as among its speakers), or Quiché (), is a Mayan language of Guatemala, spoken by the Kʼicheʼ people of the central highlands. With over a million speakers (some 7% of Guatemala's population), Kʼicheʼ is the seco ...

in the Parra orthography: .

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External links

Cuatrillo and Tresillo in Recent Linguistic PublicationsN3028: Proposal to add Mayanist Latin letters to the UCS
{{Latin script, comma 4 Cuatrillo Mayan languages

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