Testerian
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| Testerian | ||
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| Type: | Pictographic | |
| Languages: | Various | |
| Created by | Jacobo de Testera | |
| Time period: | 16th to 19th centuries | |
| Parent writing systems: | artificial script Testerian |
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Testerian is a pictorial writing system that was used until the 19th century to teach Christian doctrine to Indians in Mexico, who were unfamiliar with alphabetic writing systems. Its invention is attributed to Jacobo de Testera, a Franciscan who arrived in Mexico in 1529.
[edit] References
- Robertson, Donald (1994). Mexican Manuscript Painting of the Early Colonial Period: The Metropolitan Schools. University of Oklahoma Press, 53–55.
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