Tresillo (capital: Ꜫ, small: ꜫ;

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for "little three") is a letter of several colonial Mayan alphabets in the

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that is based on the digit 3. It was invented by a

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friar, Francisco de la Parra, in the 16th century to represent the

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consonant found in

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, and is known as one of the Parra letters. In cursive form, the tresillo is often written . As an example of use, the word for fire in the

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, , is written in the Parra orthography.

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Cuatrillo and Tresillo in Recent Linguistic Publications
Latin-script letters, 3 Tresillo Mayan languages {{Latin-script-stub

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