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Syllabary

noun
1.
A writing system whose characters represent syllables.  Synonym: syllabic script.





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"Syllabary" Quotes from Famous Books



... did not prove altogether satisfactory. It was written, for the most part, with a script called the Manyo syllabary; that is to say, with Chinese ideographs employed phonetically, and it did not at all attain the literary standard of its Chinese prototype. Therefore, the Empress entrusted to Prince Toneri and Ono Yasumaro ...
— A History of the Japanese People - From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era • Frank Brinkley and Dairoku Kikuchi


Words linked to "Syllabary" :   syllabic script, Nagari script, Devanagari, Devanagari script, Nagari, Linear B, script


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