syllabary

Example Sentences

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Mattel spokesperson Devin Tucker said the company is aware of the problem with the syllabary and is “discussing options.”

From Washington Times • Dec. 4, 2023

In the early 1800s Cherokee polymath Sequoyah invented the Cherokee syllabary of written characters.

From Scientific American • Apr. 10, 2023

With a collaborator, Rozin devised an experimental curriculum that moved children through degrees of linguistic abstraction by teaching them Chinese logographs followed by a Japanese syllabary, and only then applying the same logic to English.

From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2021

Or, going back to the beginning of this chapter and Sequoyah’s syllabary, you may choose to take inspiration from something linguistic, an expression or a way of talking that is associated with your culture.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

The characters he created represented syllables rather than letter sounds, so it is called a syllabary rather than an alphabet.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz