Article : The Principles of Nahuatl Writing

Créateur Whittaker, Gordon Résumé A contribution, the most detailed study to date, by a specialist on Aztec hieroglyphics to the study of Nahuatl (including Aztec) writing both in regard to its principles and its actual attested usage. The history of work in this area is critically reviewed, with special attention to recent widely publicized claims by several Mayanists (A. Lacadena, M. Zender, C. Helmke, J. Nielsen, H. Kettunen) that the Nahuatl syllabary, like the Maya system, only had CV s...