A derivative of the cuatrillo by adding a diacritic, ⟨Ꜯ ꜯ⟩, was used for the alveolar ejective affricate/tsʼ/ found in the same languages.
The cuatrillo is encoded in Unicode at the code points U+A72CꜬLATIN CAPITAL LETTER CUATRILLO and U+A72DꜭLATIN SMALL LETTER CUATRILLO, respectively. The cuatrillo-commas are at U+A72EꜮLATIN CAPITAL LETTER CUATRILLO WITH COMMA and U+A72FꜯLATIN SMALL LETTER CUATRILLO WITH COMMA.
As an example of use, the letter appears when spelling the name of the Kʼicheʼ language in the Parra orthography: ꜭiche.[1]
^Uocabulario copioso de las lenguas cakchikel y ꜭiche. Guatemala.
External linksedit
Cuatrillo and Tresillo in Recent Linguistic Publications
N3028: Proposal to add Mayanist Latin letters to the UCS
March 16, 2024
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