This has made it more challenging to translate parts of the Nahuatl codices. It then evolved into a mixture of ideographic and phonetic scripts, where the same symbols were used for each system, but where context determined the meaning. Nahuatl was originally written with a pictographic script, which served only as a mnemonic device to remind readers of texts they had learned in an oral fashion.
AZTEC GLYPHS FULL
Unlike the Mayans, though, the Nahua did not have a full alphabet. As support for the latter theory, Aztec phonetic signs and logograms all derive from the Nahuatl language, and the script, therefore, appears to be an Aztec invention designed to record that language. Conversely, many scholars believe the Aztec writing system was invented a mere 200 years before the arrival of the Spanish and continued to be used until about 100 years after the conquest, finally disappearing in the mid-17 th century. As a result, the Aztecs, the best-known group of the Nahua, may have adopted a writing system that had been used for many centuries before their arrival and shared by many nations in Central Mexico. They started by building their primary city, Tenochtitlan, in the marshes of Lake Texcoco, at the same time absorbing much of the culture of those around them. When the Nahua arrived in the Valley of Mexico in the 14 th century, the area had already been settled and divided into city-states. Modern-day Nahuatl (there are currently about 1.5 million speakers) has many different dialects, not all of which are mutually intelligible the dialects spoken in the Valley of Mexico are closest to Classical Nahuatl. Nahuatl is part of the Uto-Aztecan language family, a group originating in the western United States and Mexico that also includes languages such as Shoshoni. Classical Nahuatl was the language of the Aztec Empire, and it was one of the primary languages spoken in a large part of Mesoamerica from the 7 th century CE until the Spanish conquered the region in the 16 th century.
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