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]
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-​based pronunciation key.

Aztec or Nahuatl writing is a pictographic pre-Columbian writing system used in central Mexico by the Nahua peoples. Nahuatl ( [1] is a term applied to a group of related languages and dialects of the Aztecan [2] branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family, indigenous to central Mexico. ... (15th century - 16th century - 17th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. ... Unicode reserves 1,114,112 (= 220 + 216 or 17 × 216, hexadecimal 110000) code points. ... Not to be confused with the NATO phonetic alphabet, which has also informally been called the “International Phonetic Alphabet”. For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words, see IPA chart for English. ... Phonetics (from the Greek word φωνή, phone meaning sound, voice) is the study of the sounds of human speech. ... Unicode is an industry standard designed to allow text and symbols from all of the writing systems of the world to be consistently represented and manipulated by computers. ... This chart shows concisely the most common way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is applied to represent the English language. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Writing systems of the world today. ... The Nahua are a group of indigenous peoples of Mexico. ...

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. 

See also

• Aztec codices
• Nahuatl language