Which ancient American civilizations had writing? Incan, Aztec, or Mayan?

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There are about 30 Phonetic sounds in the Mayan culture, so in theory there could be 30 symbols or what is called as pictographic writing system. There is the Mayan Calendar, which ends in 2012 (a couple of years.

As for Aztec or Nahuatl writing is a pictographic and ideographic pre-Columbian writing system used in central Mexico by the Nahua peoples for historical, religious-divinatory, and administrative purposes. The conquistadors burned the majority of the Aztec codices when they conquered Mesoamerica; remaining Aztec codices such as Codex Mendoza, Codex Borbonicus, and Codex Osuna were written on deer hide and plant fiber.

As for the Inca, archaeologists havent found any traces of a writing system yet. They think that there was supposedly one, but yeah.

I hope that gives you something to contemplate over.
 
They all had a form of writing. One of the more interesting was the khipu, which used knotted strings to convey messages and was used by the Incas. The Mayans had a phonetic alphabet and the Aztecs used hieroglyphs. .
 
Incan, Aztec, and Mayan all had hieroglyphs and pictographs but no actual written alphabet as we would think of. The only Native Americans to have a written alphabet were the Cherokee of north Georgia, Alabama, East tennessee, and the western Carolinas. It was created by a Cherokee scholar named Sequoia.
 
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