syllabary

English

Etymology

From Neo-Latin syllabārium, from syllaba

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsɪləˌbɛɹi/, /sɪˈlæbəɹi/
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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 or 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

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