The Cherokee syllabary generally uses dummy vowels for coda consonants, but also has a segmental grapheme for / s /, which can be used both as a coda and in an initial / sC / consonant cluster.

In computer and machine-based telecommunications terminology, a character is a unit of information that roughly corresponds to a grapheme, grapheme-like unit, or symbol, such as in an alphabet or syllabary in the written form of a natural language.

Linear A seems to have been used as a complete syllabary around 1900 – 1800 BC, although several signs appear earlier as mason marks.

Like an alphabet the phonemes of syllable initials are represented by individual symbols, but like a syllabary the phonemes of the syllable finals are not ; rather, each possible final ( excluding the medial glide ) is represented by its own symbol.

A symbol in a syllabary, called a syllabogram, typically represents an ( optional ) consonant sound ( simple onset ) followed by a vowel sound ( nucleus )— that is, a CV or V syllable — but other phonographic mappings such as CVC and CV-tone are also found in syllabaries.

The English language allows complex syllable structures, making it cumbersome to write English words with a syllabary.

A " pure " syllabary would require a separate glyph for every syllable in English.

Sayce concluded that the Hittite hieroglyphic system was predominantly a syllabary, that is, its symbols stood for a phonetic syllable.

In his system, each symbol represents a syllable rather than a single phoneme ; the 85 ( originally 86 ) characters in the Cherokee syllabary provide a suitable method to write Cherokee.

Because each sign stands for an open syllable ( CV ) rather than a closed one ( CVC ), the Cypriot syllabary is also an ' open ' syllabary.

Katakana is designed for a language with a basic CV syllable structure, but Ainu contains many CVC syllables that cannot easily be adapted to this syllabary.

The Canadian Aboriginal syllabics are also an abugida rather than a syllabary as their name would imply, since each glyph stands for a consonant which is modified by rotation to represent the following vowel.

It is a term suggested by Peter T. Daniels to replace the common terms " consonantary ", " consonantal alphabet " or " syllabary " to refer to the family of scripts called West Semitic.

Other terms that have been used include neosyllabary ( Février 1959 ), pseudo-alphabet ( Householder 1959 ), semisyllabary ( Diringer 1968 ; a word which has other uses ) and syllabic alphabet ( Coulmas 1996 ; this term is also a synonym for syllabary ).

This is to avoid the notion that a writing system that represents sounds must be either a syllabary or an alphabet, which implies that a system like Aramaic must be either a syllabary ( as argued by Gelb ) or an incomplete or deficient alphabet ( as most other writers have said ); rather, it is a different type.

Their non-Greek language is confirmed on the site by inscriptions in the Cypriot syllabary which alone in the Aegean world survived the Bronze Age collapse and continued to be used down to the 4th century BC.

( The system is not limited to alphabets in the strict technical sense ; languages that use a syllabary or abugida, for example Cherokee, can use the same ordering principle provided there is a set ordering for the symbols used.

It is basically a syllabary, that was finally deciphered by Michael Ventris and John Chadwick in the 1950s.

Another similar system used to write the Greek language was the Cypriot syllabary ( also a descendant of Linear A via the intermediate Cypro-Minoan syllabary ), which is closely related to Linear B but uses somewhat different syllabic conventions to represent phoneme sequences.

The Cypriot syllabary is attested in Cyprus from the 11th century BC until its gradual abandonment in the late Classical period, in favor of the standard Greek alphabet.

is a Japanese syllabary, one basic component of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana, kanji, and in some cases the Latin-script alphabet ( referred to in Japanese as romaji ).

is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji, and in some cases the Latin script ( known as romaji ).

In contrast to the hiragana syllabary, which is used for those Japanese language words and grammatical inflections which kanji does not cover, the katakana syllabary is primarily used for transcription of foreign language words into Japanese and the writing of loan words ( collectively gairaigo ).

It is descended from the older Linear A, an undeciphered earlier script used for writing the Minoan language, as does the later Cypriot syllabary, which also recorded Greek.

The syllabary systems of Japanese ( hiragana and katakana ) are examples of almost perfectly shallow orthographies – the kana correspond with almost perfect consistency to the spoken syllables, although with a few exceptions where symbols reflect historical or morphophonemic features: notably the use of ぢ di and づ du ( rather than じ ji and ず zu, their pronunciation in standard Tokyo dialect ) when the character is a voicing of an underlying ち or つ ( see rendaku ), and the use of は, を, and へ to represent the sounds わ, お, and え, as relics of historical kana usage.

A syllabary is a set of written symbols that represent the syllables or ( more frequently ) moras which make up words.

Conversely, the vowel marks of the Tigrinya abugida and the Amharic abugida ( ironically, the original source of the term " abugida ") have been so completely assimilated into their consonants that the modifications are no longer systematic and have to be learned as a syllabary rather than as a segmental script.

The Greek script, adapted from a Phoenician syllabary around 800 BC, made possible the notation of the complex rhythms and vowel clusters that make up hexameter verse.

For example, the Vai syllabary originally had separate glyphs for syllables ending in a coda ( doŋ ), a long vowel ( soo ), or a diphthong ( bai ), though not enough glyphs to distinguish all CV combinations ( some distinctions were ignored ).

In a true syllabary there is no systematic graphic similarity between characters that share a common consonant or vowel sound.

A glyph in a syllabary typically represents a consonant followed by a vowel, or just a vowel alone, though in some scripts more complex syllables ( such as consonant-vowel-consonant, or consonant-consonant-vowel ) may have dedicated glyphs.

The first form of written Greek was not the Greek alphabet as it later became known, but the syllabary known as Linear B, in which one character stood for the combination of a consonant and a vowel.

It has long been puzzling to epigraphers why the syllabic principles that underlie the script, where every consonant is assumed to be followed by a vowel a, should have special letters for consonants followed by e. Such a mixed abugida – syllabary is not found among the abugidas of India, nor in Ethiopic.

The native syllabary represents vowel and consonant-vowel syllables, formed of 43 consonants and 8 vowels that can occur with any of three tones, plus two " buzzing " vowels that can only occur as mid tone.

The voiceless glottal fricative / h / had been omitted in the 1977 syllabary, but it has been added back into later editions, because it is an important distinctive sound in the Sauk language ( Müller 1994 ).

In languages written with alphabetic or syllabary scripts one might expect there to be a close match of the script or spelling with the spoken sound.

Hittite had a sound or sounds written with symbols from the Akkadian syllabary conventionally transcribed as, as in " I put, am putting ".

It is not specifically a romanization system, but two alternate systems: one uses Chinese characters phonetically, as a syllabary, and the other is an alphabetic romanization system with similar sound values and tone spellings to Gwoyeu Romatzyh.

General Chinese is not specifically a romanization system, but two alternate systems: one ( Tung-dzih Xonn-dzih ) uses Chinese characters phonetically, as a syllabary of 2082 glyphs, and the other ( Tung-dzih Lo-maa-dzih ) is an alphabetic romanization system with similar sound values and tone spellings to Gwoyeu Romatzyh.

( In a true syllabary, each consonant-vowel combination would be represented by a separate glyph.

Among the many achievements attributed to him is the invention of the kana, the syllabary in which, in combination with Chinese characters ( kanji ) the Japanese language is written, a claim which is no longer taken seriously in scholarly circles, despite its persistence in popular belief.