Meaning

2 senses
  1. A table or list of syllabic letters or syllables.

  2. 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.

    Silbenschrift

    слогова́я а́збукаslogovája ázbuka, слогово́е письмо́slogovóje pisʹmó, слогова́я пи́сьменностьslogovája písʹmennostʹ

    a writing system whose characters represent syllables

Examples

9 sentences
  1. Technically hiragana is a syllabary, not an alphabet.

    ruСтрого говоря, хирагана — это силлабарий, а не алфавит.

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  2. Cherokee is a language written with a syllabary.

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  3. Some languages use syllabaries.

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  4. Katakana is a syllabary.

    deKatakana ist eine Silbenschrift.

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  5. Hiragana is a syllabary.

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Translations

6 languages
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Origin

From New Latin syllabārium, from syllaba.

From New Latin syllabārium, from syllaba.

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Forms

plural: syllabaries
Singularsyllabary
Pluralsyllabaries

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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