syllabary

Definitions

1. A table or list of syllabic letters or syllables.
2. A writing system where each character represents a complete syllable.

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Examples

“It shouldn't be hard to come⟳ up with a musical syllabary in which pitches code for vowels and timbres code for consonants.”

“Bamum is a syllabary developed between 1896 and 1910, used for writing the Bamum language in western Cameroon.”

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