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SYLLABARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does syllabary mean? 

SYLLABARY (noun)
  The noun SYLLABARY has 1 sense:

1. a writing system whose characters represent syllablesplay

  Familiarity information: SYLLABARY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SYLLABARY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A writing system whose characters represent syllables

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

syllabary; syllabic script

Hypernyms ("syllabary" is a kind of...):

script (a particular orthography or writing system)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "syllabary"):

Devanagari; Devanagari script; Nagari; Nagari script (a syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and Hindi)

Instance hyponyms:

Linear B (a syllabic script used in Greece in the 13th century B.C.)


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