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Meaning of syllabary | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
/ˈsɪləb(ə)ɹi/

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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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