Aztec writing
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Aztec

Type

Pictographic

Spoken languages

Nahuatl

Time period

Most extant manuscripts from the 16th century.

Sister systems

Mixtec

Unicode range

U+15C00 to U+15FFF (tentative)[1]

Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode.

Aztec or Nahuatl writing is a pictographic pre-Columbian writing system used in central Mexico by the Nahua peoples.

References

  • Lawrence Lo. "Aztec". Ancient Scripts.
  • Nicholson, H. B. (1974). "Phoneticism in the Late Pre-Hispanic Central Mexican Writing System", in E. P. Bensen: Mesoamerica Writing Systems, 1–46. 
  • Prem, Hanns J. (1992). "Aztec Writing", Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 5: Epigraphy. Austin: University of Texas Press. 
  • Thouvenot, Marc (2002). "Nahuatl Script", in Anne-Marie Christin: A History of Writing: From Hieroglyph to Multimedia. Flammarion. 

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