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 c̑.

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

Character information
Preview
Unicode name LATIN CAPITAL LETTER TRESILLO LATIN SMALL LETTER TRESILLO
Encodingsdecimalhexdechex
Unicode42794U+A72A42795U+A72B
UTF-8234 156 170EA 9C AA234 156 171EA 9C AB
Numeric character referenceꜪꜪꜫꜫ

See also

References

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