Celerina's Rugs: The Zapotec Language Pre-Hispanic Zapotec writing was very complicated. While our writing is phonetic and uses letters to make words from combinations of sounds, pre-Hispanic
Zapotec writing was partly phonetic (where some glyphs represented sounds) and partly ideographic (where certain glyphs represented ideas). Not surprisingly,
many features of ancient Zapaotec writing and symbols remain to be deciphered. [eng]
The Mixtec Language of Santa Catarina Estetla The word Mixtec, originally Mixctli, comes from the Nahuatl , the
language of the Aztecs, and means "People of the Clouds". But in the
Mixtec language, Tu I Dau means Word, Philosophy, or Doctrine of the
Rain. [eng]