Aztec writing

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Aztec
Type:	Pictographic
Languages:	Nahuatl
Time period:	Most extant manuscripts from the 16th century.
Sister writing systems:	Mixtec
Unicode range:	U+15C00 to U+15FFF (tentative)[1]
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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. 

[edit] See also

• Aztec codices
• Nahuatl language