syllabary

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English

Etymology

From Neo Latin syllabārium, from syllaba

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈsɪləˌbɛri/, /sɪˈlæbəri/

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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

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

Related terms

• syllable

Translations

table

• Finnish: tavumerkistö (fi)

• Macedonian: слоговница (mk) (slgóvnica) f
• Polish: sylabariusz (pl) m

system

• Finnish: tavukirjoitus (fi), syllabaari (fi)
• Macedonian: слоговно писмо (mk) (slógovno pismo) n
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stavelsesskrift (nb) m and f

  Nynorsk: stavingsskrift (nn) f

• Polish: sylabariusz (pl) m
• Russian: слоговая азбука (ru) (slogovája ázbuka) f