page_title: Aztec writing
section_title: Origin
hierarchical_section_title: Aztec writing / Origin
caption_attribution_description: Español: Silabario Mexica en el Afabeto fonético internacional de acuerdo a Lacadena y Wichmann 2004 English: Aztec Syllabary in the International Phonetic Alphabet according to Lacadena and Wichmann 2004
context_page_description: Aztec or Nahuatl writing is a pre-Columbian writing system that combines ideographic writing with Nahuatl specific phonetic logograms and syllabic signs which was used in central Mexico by the Nahua people.
context_section_description: The Aztec writing system is adopted from writing systems used in Central Mexico, such as Zapotec writing. Mixtec writing is also thought to descend from the Zapotec. The first Oaxacan inscriptions are thought to encode Zapotec, partially because of numerical suffixes characteristic of the Zapotec languages.
caption: Aztec Silabary
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