Crossword clues for syllabary
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Syllabary \Syl"la*ba*ry\, n.
A table of syllables; more especially, a table of the
indivisible syllabic symbols used in certain languages, as
the Japanese and Cherokee, instead of letters.
--S. W.
Williams.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context orthography English) A table or list of syllabic letters or syllables 2 (context orthography English) A writing system where each character represents a complete syllable
WordNet
n. a writing system whose characters represent syllables [syn: syllabic script]
Wikipedia
A syllabary is a set of written symbols that represent the syllables or (more frequently) moras which make up words. 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, CV- tone, and C (normally nasals at the end of syllables) are also found in syllabaries.
Usage examples of "syllabary".
Most significantly however I suspect that the syllabary of Priest-Kings remains complex, and that experiments with unscented graphemes were never conducted, because, except for lexical additions, they wish to keep their language much as it was in the ancient past.
The German savants, mostly attributing them to the Saba tribes, who immigrated from Yemen about our first century, tried the Himyaritic syllabaries and failed.
His better classes read and wrote their own languages, using the Hindu syllabaries and the Arabic alphabet.
Most significantly however I suspect that the syllabary of Priest-Kings remains complex, and that experiments with unscented graphemes were never conducted, because, except for lexical additions, they wish to keep their language much as it was in the ancient past.
Thus, the developmental sequence of uses for alphabetic writing was the reverse of that for the earlier systems of logograms and syllabaries.
The writing was no longer an ambiguous syllabary mixed with logograms but an alphabet borrowed from the Phoenician consonantal alphabet and improved by the Greek invention of vowels.
I would have supposed a simpler syllabary, or even an experimentation with a nonscented perhaps alphabetic graphic script, would have been desirable linguistic ventures for the Priest-Kings, but as far as I know they were never made.
There was a syllabary and pronunciation guide for the 418 symbols used in the wizardry Speech to describe relationships and effects that other human languages had no specific words for.
The disk's script was a syllabary with more signs, of more complex form, than the Roman alphabet used by Gutenberg.
The signals, incidentally, are not a substitution cipher, for the languages of the red savages, not being written languages, in any conventional sense, do not have a standardized alphabet or syllabary.