Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A list of syllables.
- noun A set of written characters for a language, each character representing a syllable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A catalogue of the syllables of a language; a list or set of syllables, or of characters having a syllabic value.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun orthography A table or list of
syllabic letters orsyllables - noun orthography A writing system where each
character represents a completesyllable
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a writing system whose characters represent syllables
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The point is, if you say a script is a "syllabary" that suggests one character per syllable, and if you look at kana, you don't get that.
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Working with locals, the missionary or team endeavors to learn the language, develop an orthography (writing system; usually an alphabet, sometimes a syllabary), teach literacy, and finally BEGIN translating portions of the Bible.
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Working with locals, the missionary or team endeavors to learn the language, develop an orthography (writing system; usually an alphabet, sometimes a syllabary), teach literacy, and finally BEGIN translating portions of the Bible.
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He compared the use of Cherokee on Apple devices to Sequoyah's creation of the syllabary and the tribe's purchase of the printing press.
Apple Teams Up To Use iPhone To Save Cherokee Language AP 2010
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The Cherokee take particular pride in their past, including the alphabet, or syllabary, Sequoyah developed in 1821.
Apple Teams Up To Use iPhone To Save Cherokee Language AP 2010
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He compared the use of Cherokee on Apple devices to Sequoyah's creation of the syllabary and the tribe's purchase of the printing press.
Apple Teams Up To Use iPhone To Save Cherokee Language AP 2010
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The Cherokee take particular pride in their past, including the alphabet, or syllabary, Sequoyah developed in 1821.
Apple Teams Up To Use iPhone To Save Cherokee Language AP 2010
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Or that a Cherokee inventor created the first syllabary in modern times?
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I personally think イルカー (irukaa) would be a closer pronunciation of "Ilker" using Japanese syllabary.
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I was diligent, for Aghazal had promised that if I learned my syllabary quickly, she would give me the Odes and Epics to read.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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