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  2. Aztec script - Wikipedia

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    Aztec was pictographic and ideographic proto-writing, augmented by phonetic rebuses. It also contained syllabic signs and logograms. There was no alphabet, but puns also contributed to recording sounds of the Aztec language. While some scholars have understood the system not to be considered a complete writing system, this is disputed by others.

  3. Classical Nahuatl - Wikipedia

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    Classical Nahuatl, also known simply as Aztec or Codical Nahuatl (if it refers to the variants employed in the Mesoamerican Codices through the medium of Aztec Hieroglyphs) and Colonial Nahuatl (if written in Post-conquest documents in the Latin Alphabet), is a set of variants of Nahuatl spoken in the Valley of Mexico and central Mexico as a lingua franca at the time of the 16th-century ...

  4. Nahuatl - Wikipedia

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    Nahuatl (English: / ˈ n ɑː w ɑː t əl / NAH-wah-təl; [5] Nahuatl pronunciation: [ˈnaːwat͡ɬ] ⓘ), [cn 1] Aztec, or Mexicano [8] is a language or, by some definitions, a group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family. Varieties of Nahuatl are spoken by about 1.7 million Nahuas, most of whom live mainly in Central Mexico and have ...

  5. Help:IPA/Nahuatl - Wikipedia

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    This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Nahuatl on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Nahuatl in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.

  6. Nahuatl name - Wikipedia

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    A Nahuatl name is a given name in the Nahuatl language that was used by the Aztecs. Aztecs. Aztec male names from the 1540 Census n=1300 [1]

  7. Aztec codex - Wikipedia

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    Aztec codices (Nahuatl languages: Mēxihcatl āmoxtli Nahuatl pronunciation: [meːˈʃiʔkatɬ aːˈmoʃtɬi], sing. codex ) are Mesoamerican manuscripts made by the pre-Columbian Aztec , and their Nahuatl -speaking descendants during the colonial period in Mexico .

  8. History of Nahuatl - Wikipedia

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    The history of the Nahuatl, Aztec or Mexicano language can be traced back to the time when Teotihuacan flourished. From the 4th century AD to the present, the journey and development of the language and its dialect varieties have gone through a large number of periods and processes, the language being used by various peoples, civilizations and ...

  9. Ōmeteōtl - Wikipedia

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    Ōmeteōtl (Nahuatl pronunciation: [oːmeˈteoːt͡ɬ] ⓘ) ("Two gods") is a name used to refer to the pair of Aztec deities Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl, [2] also known as Tōnacātēcuhtli and Tonacacihuatl. [3] Ōme translates as "two" or "dual" in Nahuatl and teōtl translates as "phenomena". The existence of such a concept and its ...