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SYLLABARY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A writing system whose characters represent syllables

Synonyms:

syllabary; syllabic script

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("syllabary" is a kind of...):

script (a particular orthography or writing system)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "syllabary"):

Devanagari; Devanagari script; Nagari; Nagari script (a syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and Hindi)

Instance hyponyms:

Linear B (a syllabic script used in Greece in the 13th century B.C.)

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