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

He published the syllabary in 1958, and made use of it in handwritten manuscripts both anthropological and spiritual.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2022

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

Surrounded by alphabets he could not understand, he instead independently reinvented a syllabary, unaware that the Minoans of Crete had already invented another syllabary 3,500 years previously.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond