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syllabary::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | syllabic script |
| Type of | script |
| Has types | devanagari, devanagari script, nagari, nagari script |
Examples of syllabary
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The Cherokee syllabary is one of the few Native American alphabets in existence.
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Hiragana is somewhere between being a syllabary and being an abugida, isn't it?
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After years of promoting and teaching his syllabary, Sequoyah died in August 1843.
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His syllabary is still used today to teach and preserve the Cherokee language.
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Today, both ideograph Kanji and syllabary Kana is used in mixture in Japanese.
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The syllabary became a popular method of keeping records and writing letters.
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Three orders of the Afaka syllabary as recorded in the Patili Molosi Buku, c. 1917.
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People became suspicious of Sequoyah while he was developing the syllabary.
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Under the Communist government, the script was standardized as a syllabary.
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- A writing system whose characters represent syllables
- A syllabary is a set of written symbols that represent (or approximate) syllables, which make up words. A symbol in a syllabary typically represents an optional consonant sound followed by a vowel sound.
- A type of writing system in which each symbol typically represents both a consonant and a vowel, or in some instances more than one consonant and a vowel.
- A writing system in which each symbol represents a syllable (usually a sequence of consonant + vowel) rather than a single sound. Syllabaries are used to write many Algonquian languages in central Canada, such as ??????? ...
- In writing, a set of symbols which roughly equate to a syllable. This is seen in a language such as Chinese.
- A set of written characters for a language, each character representing a syllable. Hiragana and Katakana are syllabaries.
