syllabary
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From Neo-Latin syllabārium, from syllaba.
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syllabary (plural syllabaries)
- (orthography) A table or list of syllabic letters or syllables.
- (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.
- Hyponyms: alphasyllabary, abugida
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