Definitions for syllabaries

syllabaries syl·la·bar·y

Spelling: [sil-uh-ber-ee]
IPA: /ˈsɪl əˌbɛr i/

Syllabaries is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 750 anagrams from letters in syllabaries (aabeillrssy).

Definitions for syllabaries

noun

  1. a list or catalog of syllables.
  2. a set of written symbols, each of which represents a syllable, used to write a given language:

Origin of syllabaries

From the New Latin word syllabārium, dating back to 1580-90. See syllable, -ary

Examples for syllabaries

There are about 400 of these complex syllabic signs in the syllabary, instead of 26 letters as in English.

Their system remained a syllabary interspersed with ideograms, but excluded an alphabet.

The people of Annam have adopted the Chinese characters without making a syllabary or alphabet to express their own vernacular.

Whether the linear signs are a true alphabet or a syllabary (each sign representing a complete syllable) we do not know.

This syllabary and that invented for the Cherokees by Guess, are the only two in the world.

This syllabary enabled the Japanese to express the sounds of their vernacular without difficulty.

A syllabary describes the god as a 'raging' deity, a description that suggests solar functions.

The kana13 is a syllabary of forty-seven letters, which by diacritical marks, may be increased to seventy.

The characters of the syllabary were all arranged and named, and elaborate lists of them were drawn up.

Kana signifies the Japanese syllabary,—the characters with which the language is written.

Word Value for syllabaries
Scrable

0

Words with friends

18

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