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Their system remained a syllabary interspersed with ideograms, but excluded an alphabet.
2
Note the reference to the difficult nature of the Pehlevi syllabary.
3
The Ethiopic system is thus rather a syllabary than an alphabet.
4
It was a vast improvement on the old syllabary, but it had its drawbacks.
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A brief analysis of speech sounds will aid us in understanding the real nature of the syllabary.
1
Such is the first and simplest syllabarium: but the Assyrian system does not stop here.