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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
Only one motif looks out of place: the name “Maiku,” rendered in a phonetic Japanese syllabary.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 28, 2018
For the same reason, we can be sure that the Linear B syllabary of Mycenaean Greece had been adapted by around 1400 B.C. from the Linear A syllabary of Minoan Crete.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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
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
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
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 syllabaries explain this ideogram by "Assur," but it is very awkward that in these texts the identification with Assur occurs nowhere.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Literature by Anonymous
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