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Synonyms for syllabary

Grammar : Noun
Spell : sil-uh-ber-ee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɪl əˌbɛr i

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Définition of syllabary

  • As in alphabet : noun letters of a writing system
Example sentences :
  • Kana signifies the Japanese syllabary,—the characters with which the language is written.
  • Extract from : « Shadowings » by Lafcadio Hearn
  • This syllabary and that invented for the Cherokees by Guess, are the only two in the world.
  • Extract from : « The Progress of Ethnology » by John Russell Bartlett
  • A syllabary describes the god as a 'raging' deity, a description that suggests solar functions.
  • Extract from : « The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria » by Morris Jastrow
  • There are about 400 of these complex syllabic signs in the syllabary, instead of 26 letters as in English.
  • Extract from : « The World's Progress, Vol. I (of X) » by Various
  • This syllabary enabled the Japanese to express the sounds of their vernacular without difficulty.
  • Extract from : « The Progress of Ethnology » by John Russell Bartlett
  • The people of Annam have adopted the Chinese characters without making a syllabary or alphabet to express their own vernacular.
  • Extract from : « The Progress of Ethnology » by John Russell Bartlett
  • Whether the linear signs are a true alphabet or a syllabary (each sign representing a complete syllable) we do not know.
  • Extract from : « Books Before Typography » by Frederick W. Hamilton
  • Their system remained a syllabary interspersed with ideograms, but excluded an alphabet.
  • Extract from : « History Of Egypt, Chalda, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 3 (of 12) » by G. Maspero
  • The characters of the syllabary were all arranged and named, and elaborate lists of them were drawn up.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 » by Various
  • The kana13 is a syllabary of forty-seven letters, which by diacritical marks, may be increased to seventy.
  • Extract from : « The Religions of Japan » by William Elliot Griffis

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