Syllabary

//ˈsɪləb(ə)ɹi//

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Technically hiragana is a syllabary, not an alphabet.

The names are in Japanese syllabary order.

Katakana is a syllabary.

Hiragana is a syllabary.

Sequoyah started making the Cherokee syllabary around 1809.

Cherokee is a language written with a syllabary.

The Cherokee syllabary, just like the Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian and Latin alphabets, has a distinction between lowercase and uppercase letters.

It shouldn't be hard to come up with a musical syllabary in which pitches code for vowels and timbres code for consonants.

Bamum is a syllabary developed between 1896 and 1910, used for writing the Bamum language in western Cameroon.

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