# Cuatrillo

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{{Short description|Letter of many colonial Mayan alphabets in the Latin script}}
{{image frame|border=no|content=255px|class=skin-invert|caption=The cuatrillo}}
{{image frame|border=no|content=255px|class=skin-invert|caption=The cuatrillo with comma}}
'''Cuatrillo''' (capital: Ꜭ, small: ꜭ) ([Spanish](/source/Spanish_language) for "little four") is a letter of several [colonial Mayan alphabet](/source/colonial_Mayan_alphabet)s in the [Latin script](/source/Latin_script) that is based on the digit [4](/source/4_(number)). It was invented by a [Franciscan](/source/Franciscan) friar, [Alonso de la Parra](/source/Alonso_de_la_Parra), in the 16th century to represent the [velar ejective](/source/velar_ejective) consonant {{IPAslink|kʼ}} found in [Mayan languages](/source/Mayan_languages), and is known as one of the [Parra letters](/source/Parra_letters). 

A derivative of the cuatrillo by adding a diacritic, {{angbr|Ꜯ ꜯ}}, was used for the [alveolar ejective affricate](/source/alveolar_ejective_affricate) {{IPAslink|tsʼ}} found in the same languages. 

As an example of use, the letter appears when spelling the name of the [Kʼicheʼ language](/source/K%CA%BCiche%CA%BC_language) in the Parra orthography: {{Lang|quc|ꜭiche}}.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/vocabulariocopio00dieg|title=Uocabulario copioso de las lenguas cakchikel y ꜭiche|location=Guatemala}}</ref>

== Unicode ==
The Cuatrillo was added to Unicode in March, 2008 with the release of 5.1.
{{charmap
|A72C|name1=LATIN CAPITAL LETTER CUATRILLO
|A72D|name2=LATIN SMALL LETTER CUATRILLO
|A72E|name3=LATIN CAPITAL LETTER CUATRILLO WITH COMMA
|A72F|name4=LATIN SMALL LETTER CUATRILLO WITH COMMA
}}

==See also==
*[Tresillo](/source/Tresillo_(letter))

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=RecentCuatrilloUse Cuatrillo and Tresillo in Recent Linguistic Publications]
*[http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3028.pdf N3028: Proposal to add Mayanist Latin letters to the UCS]

{{Latin script|comma}}

4 Cuatrillo
Category:Mayan languages

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