syllabary

See also: syllabus and syllabic

English

Etymology

From New Latin syllabārium, from syllaba.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsɪləb(ə)ɹi/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsɪləˌbɛɹi/, /ˈsɪləb(ə)ɹi/
  • Audio (US):(file)

Noun

syllabary (plural syllabaries)

  1. (orthography) A table or list of syllabic letters or syllables.
  2. (orthography) A writing system where each character represents a complete syllable.
    Hyponyms: alphasyllabary, abugida
    It shouldn't be hard to come up with a musical syllabary in which pitches code for vowels and timbres code for consonants.
    • 2022 September, “Version 15.0 – Core Specification”, in Unicode[1], page 793:
      Bamum is a syllabary developed between 1896 and 1910, used for writing the Bamum language in western Cameroon.

Hypernyms

Meronyms

Derived terms

Translations