syllabary

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):

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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

• signary

Meronyms

• syllabogram

Derived terms

• alphasyllabary
• Cypriot syllabary
• semisyllabary

Related terms

• syllable

Translations

table

• Finnish: tavumerkistö (fi)
• French: syllabaire (fr)
• Greek: συλλαβάριο n (syllavário)
• Macedonian: слого́вница f (slogóvnica)
• Polish: sylabariusz (pl) m
• Portuguese: silabário (pt) m
• Tagalog: talapantigan

system

• Bulgarian: сричкова азбука f (sričkova azbuka)
• Catalan: sil·labari (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 音節文字 / 音节文字 (zh) (yīnjié wénzì)

• Czech: slabičné písmo
• Finnish: tavukirjoitus (fi), syllabaari
• French: syllabaire (fr) m
• German: Silbenschrift (de) f
• Greek: συλλαβογραφία (el) f (syllavografía)
• Irish: siollabra m
• 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 (pl) m
• Portuguese: silabário (pt) m
• Russian: слогова́я а́збука f (slogovája ázbuka), слогово́е письмо́ n (slogovóje pisʹmó), слогова́я пи́сьменность f (slogovája písʹmennostʹ)
• Spanish: silabario (es) m
• Tagalog: talapantigan, pantigan
• Welsh: sillwyddor f