Definition of Syllabary. Meaning of Syllabary. Synonyms of Syllabary

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Definition of Syllabary

Syllabary
Syllabary Syl"la*ba*ry, n. A table of syllables; more especially, a table of the indivisible syllabic symbols used in certain languages, as the Japanese and Cherokee, instead of letters. --S. W. Williams.

Meaning of Syllabary from wikipedia

- languages, a syllabary is a set of written symbols that represent the syllables or (more frequently) moras which make up words. A symbol in a syllabary, called...
- Cherokee syllabary is a syllabary invented by Sequoyah in the late 1810s and early 1820s to write the Cherokee language. His creation of the syllabary is particularly...
- Katakana (片仮名、カタカナ, IPA: [katakaꜜna, kataꜜkana]) is a ****anese syllabary, one component of the ****anese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and...
- The Cypriot or Cypriote syllabary (also classical Cypriot Syllabary) is a syllabic script used in Iron Age Cyprus, from about the 11th to the 4th centuries...
- A semi-syllabary is a writing system that behaves partly as an alphabet and partly as a syllabary. The main group of semi-syllabic writing are the Paleohispanic...
- Nation. In 1821, he completed his independent creation of the Cherokee syllabary, enabling reading and writing in Cherokee. His achievement was one of...
- The Vai syllabary is a syllabic writing system devised for the Vai language by Momolu Duwalu Bukele of Jondu, in what is now Grand Cape Mount County,...
- Naxi scripture using the Geba syllabary (Yunnan Nationalities Museum in Kunming, Yunnan, China)...
- The Bété syllabary was created for the Bété language of Ivory Coast (in West Africa) in the 1950s by artist Frédéric Bruly Bouabré. It consists of about...
- The Afaka script ( afaka sikifi) is a syllabary of 56 letters devised in 1910 for the Ndyuka language, an English-based creole of Suriname. The script...