The Aztecs were a Nahuatl speaking people. This language has been around for 14000 years before the Aztecs adopted it. One of the last Nahuatl speaking people were the Mexicas, ( a people founded in Central Mexiaco). This language was one of trade and and was often used in literature. If you spoke Nahuatl, then you were considered to be prestigious or in high power. According to Aztec History.com, " The Nahuatl language is an agglutinant language, which means that words and phrases are put together by combining prefixes, suffixes, and root words, in order to form an idea." In the Nahuatl language, there is actually a word that means, ' you honoring people might have come along banging your noses as to make them bleed, but in fact you didn't.' however, before the Spanish gifted the Aztecs with this language, the Aztecs used pictures to communicate. These pictures were called pictograms, ideograms, and phonogram. A pictogram was a symbol meant exactly what it looked like. An ideogram would represent the idea behind the symbol. A phonogram is the closest representation to the Aztec alphabet.