Syllabary - Wikipedia In the linguistic study of written languages, a syllabary is a set of written symbols that represent the syllables or (more frequently) morae which make up words
Syllabaries - Omniglot A syllabary is a phonetic writing system consisting of symbols representing syllables A syllable is often made up of a consonant plus a vowel or a single vowel The illustration on the right shows a selection of symbols from the Cherokee (on the left) and Japanese Hiragana (on the right) syllabaries
SYLLABARY Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster The meaning of SYLLABARY is a table or listing of syllables; specifically : a series or set of written characters each one of which is used to represent a syllable
Syllabary | Writing system, Alphabetic, Cuneiform | Britannica syllabary, a set of written symbols used to represent the syllables of the words of a language Writing systems that use syllabaries wholly or in part include Japanese, Cherokee, the ancient Cretan scripts (Linear A and Linear B), and various Indic and cuneiform writing systems
Syllabaries - International Phonetic Alphabet Syllabaries Semi-syllabaries: Partly syllabic, partly alphabetic scripts Zhuyin fuhao – phonetic script for Chinese languages, and principal script for several Formosan languages
Syllabaries - definition of syllabaries by The Free Dictionary (Linguistics) a table or list of syllables 2 (Letters of the Alphabet (Foreign)) a set of symbols used in certain writing systems, such as one used for Japanese, in which each symbol represents a spoken syllable
Syllabary - (Intro to Humanities) - Vocab, Definition . . . Syllabaries differ from alphabetic writing systems primarily in how they represent sounds While alphabets use individual letters to denote phonemes, which are the smallest units of sound, syllabaries utilize symbols that represent entire syllables