Word of the Day:
syllabary
What It Means
A table or list of syllabic letters or syllables.
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.
Syllabary in Context
“Bamum is a syllabary developed between 1896 and 1910, used for writing the Bamum language in western Cameroon.”
Did You Know?
From New Latin syllabārium, from syllaba.
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