Syllabary (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun, plural syl·la·bar·ies.
  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: the Japanese syllabary.
noun plural -baries
  1. a table or list of syllables
  2. a set of symbols used in certain writing systems, such as one used for Japanese, in which each symbol represents a spoken syllable
Syllabary (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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