Aztec

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Aztec
Type	Pictographic
Spoken languages	Nahuatl
Time period	Most extant manuscripts from the 16th century.
Sister 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.

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.

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