Deciphering Aztec hieroglyphs : a guide to Nahuatl writing

1. Verfasser: Whittaker, Gordon , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021].
Umfang/Format: 223 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm.
Schlagworte:
Inhaltsangabe:
  • The world of the Aztec scribe
  • General principles
  • An essential hieroglyphic grammar
  • Phonetic writing: the Nahuatl script in 16th-century central Mexico
  • Names and glyphs that ruled an empire
  • The origins of Nahuatl writing: the Teotihua script
  • Writing in tongues: how Aztec hieroglyphs came to record Spanish
  • Where to go from here.