The Mixtecs (/ ˈ m iː s t ɛ k s, ˈ m iː ʃ t ɛ k s /), or Mixtecos, are indigenous Mesoamerican peoples of Mexico inhabiting the region known as La Mixteca of Oaxaca and Puebla as well as La Montaña Region and Costa Chica Regions of the state of Guerrero.The Mixtec Culture was the main Mixtex civilization, which lasted from around 1500 BC until being conquered by the …

The historical territory of the Mixtecs is located in southern Mexico. With an area of more than 40,000 km², La Mixteca, as it is known today, occupies the south of Puebla, the east of Guerrero, and the west of Oaxaca.La Mixteca was called Mixtecapan by the Mexica, which in Nahuatl means Country of the Mixtecs.In the ancient Mixtec language, the country was called Ñuu Dzahui, …

Businesses. China Southern Airlines, airline based in Guangzhou, China; Southern Airways, defunct US airline; Southern Air, air cargo transportation company based in Norwalk, Connecticut, US; Southern Airways Express, Memphis-based passenger air transportation company, serving eight cities in the US; Southern Company, US electricity corporation; Southern Music (now …

This article or section should specify the language of its non-English content, using {{}}, {{transliteration}} for transliterated languages, and {{}} for phonetic transcriptions, with an appropriate ISO 639 code.Wikipedia's multilingual support templates may also be used. See why. (November 2020)(Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Rongorongo / ˈ r ɒ ŋ ɡ oʊ ˈ r ɒ ŋ ɡ oʊ / (Rapa Nui: [ˈɾoŋoˈɾoŋo]) is a system of glyphs discovered in the 19th century on Easter Island that appears to be writing or proto-writing.Numerous attempts at decipherment have been made, with none being successful. Although some calendrical and what might prove to be genealogical information has been identified, none of these glyphs ...

In linguistic typology, an analytic language is a language that primarily conveys relationships between words in sentences by way of helper words (particles, prepositions, etc.) and word order, as opposed to using inflections (changing the form of a word to convey its role in the sentence). For example, the English-language phrase "The cat chases the ball" conveys the fact that the …

Terminology. The term Hispanic derives from Latin Hispanicus, the adjectival derivation of Latin (and Greek) Hispania (that is, the Iberian peninsula), possibly of Celtiberian origin. In English the word is attested from the 16th century (and in the late 19th century in American English). The words Spain, Spanish, and Spaniard are of the same etymology as Hispanus, ultimately.

Tairona (or Tayrona) was a Pre-Columbian culture of Colombia, which consisted in a group of chiefdoms in the region of Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in present-day Cesar, Magdalena and La Guajira Departments of Colombia, South America, which goes back at least to the 1st century AD and had significant demographic growth around the 11th century.. The Tairona people formed …

An ideogram or ideograph (from Greek ἰδέα idéa "idea" and γράφω gráphō "to write") is a graphic symbol that represents an idea or concept, independent of any particular language, and specific words or phrases. Some ideograms are comprehensible only by familiarity with prior convention; others convey their meaning through pictorial resemblance to a physical object, and thus may ...

Baybayin (Tagalog pronunciation: [baɪˈbajɪn], pre-kudlít: ᜊᜊᜌᜒ, virama-krus-kudlít: ᜊᜌ᜔ᜊᜌᜒᜈ᜔, virama-pamudpod: ᜊᜌ᜕ᜊᜌᜒᜈ᜕; also formerly commonly incorrectly known as alibata) is a Philippine script.The script is an alphasyllabary belonging to the family of the Brahmic scripts.It was widely used in Luzon and other parts of the Philippines prior to and ...