Tresillo (letter)

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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 /qʼ/ 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.

Character information

Preview	Ꜫ		ꜫ
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

See also

• Cuatrillo

References

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

External links

• Cuatrillo and Tresillo in Recent Linguistic Publications

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