Aztec script

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Aztec
Script type	Pictographic and logosyllabic
Time period	Most extant manuscripts from the 16th century
Languages	Nahuatl
Related scripts
Sister systems	Mixtec
Unicode
Unicode range	U+15C00 to U+15FFF (tentative)[1]
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The Aztec or Nahuatl script is a pre-Columbian writing system that combines ideographic writing with Nahuatl specific phonetic logograms and syllabic signs^[1] which was used in central Mexico by the Nahua people in the Epiclassic and Post-classic periods.^[2] It was originally thought that its use was reserved for elites, however, the topographical codices and early colonial catechisms, recently deciphered, were used by tlacuilos (scribes),^[3] macehuallis (peasants), and pochtecas (merchants).^[4]