Aztec Pictograms
Glyphs for placenames in the Aztec writing system
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Maps
Https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Aztec_Empire.png "Aztec Empire" by Aldan licensed under CC-BY-SA-4.0
DISCLAIMER: This script is still being researched
Data
| Alternate Names | Nahuatl Writing |
|---|---|
| ISO 15924 | None |
| Type | Morphosyllabic Pictoral Phonetic |
| Family | American |
| Direction | TtB later texts include paired columns and paired columns that are to be read together from left to right and from top to bottom |
| Diacritics | No |
| Contextual Forms | Yes |
| Capitals Used | No |
| Earliest Location | Central mexican Highlands |
| Earliest Date | ~600 BCE |
| Latest Date | ~1600 CE |
| Ancestry |
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Bibliography
| Author | Year | Publication | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coulmas, Florian | 1999 | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems, 1-33 | Blackwell Publishing |
| Lacadena, Alfonso | 2008 | Special Nahuatl Writing issue, Regional Scribal Traditions: Methodological Implications for the Decipherment of Nahuatl Writing, 1-22 | The PARI Journal |
| Marcus, Joyce | 1976 | Annual Review of Anthropology, Origins of Mesoamerican Writing, 35-67 | Annual Review of Anthropology |