Aztec writing
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| Aztec | ||
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| 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] | |
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| 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.
[edit] 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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