Tresillo

The Tresillo ( Ꜫ, lowercase ꜫ ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet. The letter is similar in appearance a vertically mirrored Section 3 The letter was introduced by Spanish missionaries in Latin America actually for the local Mayan languages ​​. The sound that represents this sign, is described by the missionaries as " the only true guttural in the language that is strongly articulated in the throat and produces a Trillgeräusch ". This sound is now as uvular Ejektiv ( IPA: / q / ) is known.

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Unicode contains the Tresillo to the code points U A72A ( capital letter ) and U A72B (lowercase ).

( based on it for letters with diacritics, inter alia, see list of Latin -based alphabets )

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Uvular consonant Ejective consonant Latin alphabets
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