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{{Infobox Writing system

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| name = Aztec

| type = Pictographic

| languages = [[Nahuatl language|Nahuatl]]

| time = Most extant manuscripts from the [[16th century]].

| sisters = [[Mixtec writing|Mixtec]]

| sample = Aztecwriting.jpg

| imagesize = 97px

| unicode = U+15C00 to U+15FFF (tentative)[http://www.unicode.org/roadmaps/smp/]

}}

'''Aztec''' or '''Nahuatl writing''' is a [[pictogram|pictographic]] [[pre-Columbian]] [[writing system]] used in central [[Mexico]] by the [[Nahua|Nahua peoples]].

==References==

*{{cite web |url=http://www.ancientscripts.com/aztec.html |title=Aztec |author=Lawrence Lo |work=Ancient Scripts}}

*{{cite book |author=Nicholson, H. B. |year=1974 |chapter=Phoneticism in the Late Pre-Hispanic Central Mexican Writing System |editor=E. P. Bensen |title=Mesoamerica Writing Systems |pages=1–46}}

*{{cite book |author=Prem, Hanns J. |year=1992 |chapter=Aztec Writing |title=Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 5: Epigraphy |___location=Austin |publisher=University of Texas Press}}

*{{cite book |author=Thouvenot, Marc |year=2002 |chapter=Nahuatl Script |editor=Anne-Marie Christin |title=A History of Writing: From Hieroglyph to Multimedia |publisher=Flammarion}}

==See also==

*[[Aztec codices]]

*[[Nahuatl language]]

{{commons|Aztec glyphs}}

{{writing systems}}

[[Category:Mesoamerican writing systems]]

[[Category:Aztec]]

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[[it:Scrittura azteca]]

[[ru:Ацтекское письмо]]