Meanings of syllabary in English

Their system remained a syllabary interspersed with ideograms, but excluded an alphabet.

Note the reference to the difficult nature of the Pehlevi syllabary.

The Ethiopic system is thus rather a syllabary than an alphabet.

It was a vast improvement on the old syllabary, but it had its drawbacks.

A brief analysis of speech sounds will aid us in understanding the real nature of the syllabary.

It probably wasn't the Japanese syllabary.

There also exists in Japan a syllabary alphabet of forty-seven characters, used at present as an auxiliary to the Chinese.

By such slurring of sounds the syllabary is reduced far below its ideal limits; yet even so it retains three or four hundred characters.

Possibly that sense is born of the feeling that the Cretan linear script, for example, or the Cyprian syllabary, looks very odd and outlandish.

The script is a 'featural syllabary' primarily used to write in Southern Bantu languages; and was developed by a group of linguists, programmers and designers.

Syllabaries were common in ancient times, as exemplified by the Linear B writing of Mycenaean Greece.

People told them in all parts of the world long before Egyptian hieroglyphics or Cretan signs or Cyprian syllabaries, or alphabets were invented.

Some syllabaries persist today, the most important being the kana syllabary that the Japanese use for telegrams, bank statements, and texts for blind readers.

Some languages use syllabaries, reuniting a consonant and a following vowel (such as in the Japanese Katakana: ka, ke, ki, ko, ku).

As 11 of the 12 which have meanings are to be found in the Assyrian-Babylonian syllabaries, he suggests a possible Babylonian origin.

Their system remained a syllabary interspersed with ideograms, but excluded an alphabet.