syllabary

NOUN
  1. a writing system whose characters represent syllables
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How To Use syllabary In A Sentence

  • Each kana, as these two systems are called, is a separate phonetic syllabary and each hiragana character has a corresponding katakana character.
  • So I got into university knowing only the Romanized syllabary.
  • He used this experience to complete the translation into English of a manuscript on healing, originally in the Sequoya syllabary, which had been begun by another scholar.
  • After the Egyptologists of the school of De Rouge 36 thought they had demonstrated that the familiar symbols of the Phoenician alphabet had been copied from that modified form of Egyptian hieroglyphics known as the hieratic writing, the Assyriologists came forward to prove that certain characters of the Babylonian syllabary also show a likeness to the alphabetical characters that seemingly could not be due to chance. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science
  • Working with locals, the missionary or team endeavors to learn the language, develop an orthography (writing system; usually an alphabet, sometimes a syllabary), teach literacy, and finally BEGIN translating portions of the Bible. Literacy News – 875th Edition « News « Literacy News
  • They also write these first and last names with Japanese characters - not with the phonetic syllabary used for foreign names.
  • One page was written in our syllabary, which is our alphabet, and the other page was written in English.
  • Or that a Cherokee inventor created the first syllabary in modern times? Jeff Biggers: Diane Sawyer: You Should Watch Tonight's Big PBS Series on Why Appalachian Mountains Matter
  • It was enough that we be able to read the syllabary.
  • Akkadian is written with wedges on clay, and has a syllabary containing several hundred signs.
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