syllabary

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

Each column has a letterpress piece with a Cherokee syllabary to spread awareness of the written language.

From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2022

Bouabré became convinced they were the remains of an ancient writing system, and he wanted to use them as the basis for a new alphabet, or syllabary.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2022

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

In addition, Japanese papers use flashy modern trappings such as airplanes, walkie-talkies and monotypes that can set some 2,200 Japanese syllabaries and Chinese ideographs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus, the developmental sequence of uses for alphabetic writing was the reverse of that for the earlier systems of logograms and syllabaries.

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

Most such tailor-made systems modify existing alphabets, though some instead design syllabaries.

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

Some syllabaries persist today, the most important being the kana syllabary that the Japanese use for telegrams, bank statements, and texts for blind readers.

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

The German savants, mostly attributing them to the Sabá tribes, who immigrated from Yemen about our first century, tried the Himyaritic syllabaries and failed.

From The Land of Midian — Volume 2 by Sir Richard Francis Burton