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Syllabary

Syl′la-ba-ry

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Noun.

A table of syllables; more especially, a table of the indivisible syllabic symbols used in certain languages, as the Japanese and Cherokee, instead of letters.

S. W. Williams.

Definition 2024

syllabary

syllabary

English

Noun

syllabary ‎(plural syllabaries)

(orthography) A table or list of syllabic letters or syllables
(orthography) A writing system where each character represents a complete syllable
It shouldn't be hard to come up with a musical syllabary in which pitches code for vowels and timbres code for consonants.

Related terms

syllable

Translations

table

Finnish: tavumerkistö (fi)
Greek: συλλαβάριο n ‎(syllavário)
Macedonian: слого́вница f ‎(slogóvnica)

Polish: sylabariusz m
Portuguese: silabário (pt) m
Tagalog: talapantigan

system

Chinese:
Mandarin: 音節文字 (zh), 音节文字 (zh) ‎(yīnjié wénzì)
Finnish: tavukirjoitus (fi), syllabaari
French: syllabaire (fr) m
German: Silbenschrift (de) f
Greek: συλλαβογραφία (el) f ‎(syllavografía)
Japanese: 音節文字 (ja) ‎(おんせつもじ , onsetsu moji)
Korean: 음절문자 (ko) ‎(eumjeolmunja)

Macedonian: сло́говно пи́смо n ‎(slógovno písmo)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: stavelsesskrift m, f

Nynorsk: stavingsskrift f
Polish: sylabariusz m
Portuguese: silabário (pt) m
Russian: слогова́я а́збука f ‎(slogovája ázbuka), слогово́е письмо́ n ‎(slogovóje pisʹmó), слогова́я пи́сьменность f ‎(slogovája písʹmennostʹ)
Tagalog: talapantigan, pantigan