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syllabary

noun
/ˈsɪləb(ə)ɹi/UK/ˈsɪləˌbɛɹi/US

Etymology

From New Latin syllabārium, from syllaba.

  1. derived from syllabārium

Definitions

  1. A table or list of syllabic letters or syllables.

  2. A writing system where each character represents a complete syllable.

    • 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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Derived

alphasyllabary, Cypriot syllabary, semisyllabary, semisyllabic, syllabaric

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at syllabary. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at syllabary. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at syllabary

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA