Talk:Aztec script

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The introduction at the top of the article should explain why Aztec writing is important, ie how widely it was used, examples of famous texts, etc.

More could be mentioned on what examples of the writing exists, how well current scholars understand the writing system, if they wrote on clay, paper, etc. The description of the signs is good, but there are a lot of context around the signs that should be explained.

Liuyuan Chen 15:26, 3 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Overall, you did a significant amount of editing with a good degree of quality. In terms of further improvements, I would expand on the origin, musical, numerical as well as the historical components of the page.

ZiTee 2:36, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Source support for assertions

The very first assertion made is that Aztec writing is/was pictographic and ideographic. But in the source given for this fact (Lacadena, Alfanso. "Regional Scribal Traditions: Methodological Implications for th Decipherment of Nahuatl Writing") I cannot find anything that says Aztec writing was either of these. In fact, the source seems to be trying to make a case for Aztec writing to be logographic and/or phonetic (page 24, right column). I'm not convinced that this is settled science in either direction. I have heard anthropology professors refer to Aztec writing as primarily pictographic and ideographic, so I'm inclined to believe that is the current wisdom on the topic, but if so, the given source doesn't seem to support it very well. Is there another source that better reflects this? 155.97.15.115 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 22:12, 31 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Nahuatl script is a pre-Columbian

that is some good old Eurocentrism there. If we did it for everywhere Europeans arrival becomes the pivotal event in world history. Let me show you " Songhai is a pre-European African civilization", "The Inuit of Blah Blah are a pre-European group" on and on. The lends is Eurocentric and I think more progressive ways of talking about the world are better. Hausa warrior (talk) 08:16, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]