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Definition of syllabary in English: syllabarynounPlural syllabaries ˈsɪləb(ə)riˈsɪləˌbɛri A set of written characters representing syllables and (in some languages or stages of writing) serving the purpose of an alphabet. Example sentencesExamples - The Japanese phonetic syllabaries (characters representing syllables) or the Roman alphabet is used to transcribe Ainu speech.
- A clear-cut distinction cannot always be made between alphabets proper and syllabaries, sets of syllabic symbols as in the Japanese kana systems.
- Hiragana and katakana are both phonetic syllabaries, wherein each of the 46 symbols equates to one phonic.
- One page was written in our syllabary, which is our alphabet, and the other page was written in English.
- Linear-B was a syllabary - each character represented a complete syllable.
- A similar system in use in Japan at about the same time, known as man'yogana, eventually evolved into hiragana, one of the syllabaries used to write modern Japanese.
- While disappointing for epigraphy fans, the find adds 101 characters to the Isthmian syllabary and should represent a step toward retrieving Olmec history.
- Cherokee is written with a syllabary invented independently by Sequoyah in the 1830s.
- They also write these first and last names with Japanese characters - not with the phonetic syllabary used for foreign names.
- Independently, the Sumerians and the Egyptians developed much simpler phonetic syllabaries consisting of about 26 letters.
- At the same time, a sophisticated syllabary developed.
- Their equivalent of an alphabet was similar to a Japanese syllabary, where each symbol stood for a syllable in their tongue.
- This same paradigm of identical shapes in varying orientations made the syllabary easy to learn, resulting in a high rate of literacy among the Cree people.
- Over time, the continual re-use of the same characters to represent sounds led to the evolution of a syllabary based on the sounds of the spoken language.
- It was enough that we be able to read the syllabary.
- Eight in 10 foreigners attending Japanese-language schools can read hiragana Japanese cursive syllabary but only around five in 10 can read Roman characters, a survey conducted by the Cultural Affairs Agency said Thursday.
- Akkadian is written with wedges on clay, and has a syllabary containing several hundred signs.
- He used this experience to complete the translation into English of a manuscript on healing, originally in the Sequoya syllabary, which had been begun by another scholar.
- Each kana, as these two systems are called, is a separate phonetic syllabary and each hiragana character has a corresponding katakana character.
- So I got into university knowing only the Romanized syllabary.
Synonyms system of symbols, alphabet, script
Origin Mid 19th century: from modern Latin syllabarium, from Latin syllaba (see syllable). Definition of syllabary in US English: syllabarynounˈsiləˌberēˈsɪləˌbɛri A set of written characters representing syllables and (in some languages or stages of writing) serving the purpose of an alphabet. Example sentencesExamples - At the same time, a sophisticated syllabary developed.
- Over time, the continual re-use of the same characters to represent sounds led to the evolution of a syllabary based on the sounds of the spoken language.
- He used this experience to complete the translation into English of a manuscript on healing, originally in the Sequoya syllabary, which had been begun by another scholar.
- Akkadian is written with wedges on clay, and has a syllabary containing several hundred signs.
- They also write these first and last names with Japanese characters - not with the phonetic syllabary used for foreign names.
- Cherokee is written with a syllabary invented independently by Sequoyah in the 1830s.
- This same paradigm of identical shapes in varying orientations made the syllabary easy to learn, resulting in a high rate of literacy among the Cree people.
- Eight in 10 foreigners attending Japanese-language schools can read hiragana Japanese cursive syllabary but only around five in 10 can read Roman characters, a survey conducted by the Cultural Affairs Agency said Thursday.
- It was enough that we be able to read the syllabary.
- The Japanese phonetic syllabaries (characters representing syllables) or the Roman alphabet is used to transcribe Ainu speech.
- One page was written in our syllabary, which is our alphabet, and the other page was written in English.
- A similar system in use in Japan at about the same time, known as man'yogana, eventually evolved into hiragana, one of the syllabaries used to write modern Japanese.
- Each kana, as these two systems are called, is a separate phonetic syllabary and each hiragana character has a corresponding katakana character.
- While disappointing for epigraphy fans, the find adds 101 characters to the Isthmian syllabary and should represent a step toward retrieving Olmec history.
- Hiragana and katakana are both phonetic syllabaries, wherein each of the 46 symbols equates to one phonic.
- Linear-B was a syllabary - each character represented a complete syllable.
- So I got into university knowing only the Romanized syllabary.
- Independently, the Sumerians and the Egyptians developed much simpler phonetic syllabaries consisting of about 26 letters.
- A clear-cut distinction cannot always be made between alphabets proper and syllabaries, sets of syllabic symbols as in the Japanese kana systems.
- Their equivalent of an alphabet was similar to a Japanese syllabary, where each symbol stood for a syllable in their tongue.
Synonyms system of symbols, alphabet, script
Origin Mid 19th century: from modern Latin syllabarium, from Latin syllaba (see syllable). |