| Akkadian is written with wedges on clay, and has a syllabary containing several hundred signs. |
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| One page was written in our syllabary, which is our alphabet, and the other page was written in English. |
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| Their equivalent of an alphabet was similar to a Japanese syllabary, where each symbol stood for a syllable in their tongue. |
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| Each kana, as these two systems are called, is a separate phonetic syllabary and each hiragana character has a corresponding katakana character. |
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| This same paradigm of identical shapes in varying orientations made the syllabary easy to learn, resulting in a high rate of literacy among the Cree people. |
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| Over time, the continual re-use of the same characters to represent sounds led to the evolution of a syllabary based on the sounds of the spoken language. |
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| He used this experience to complete the translation into English of a manuscript on healing, originally in the Sequoya syllabary, which had been begun by another scholar. |
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| A syllabary such as Linear B, the Mycenaean script dating from about 1400 bce, would have a graph for each of those syllables. |
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| Similarly, a syllabary or an alphabet would be quite useless for Chinese, a language with a staggering degree of homophony. |
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| Nowhere is there any trace of a manual, syllabary, catechism or reader printed in the southern French medieval dialects. |
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| Finally, in 1883, E. J. Peck completed the Inuit syllabary and began teaching it to the people of Great Whale River around Cumberland Sound. |
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| So I got into university knowing only the Romanized syllabary. |
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| While disappointing for epigraphy fans, the find adds 101 characters to the Isthmian syllabary and should represent a step toward retrieving Olmec history. |
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| Katakana is the standard syllabary for rendering non-Japanese names into Japanese. |
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| Fortunately, Elamite largely ignored or discarded most of this and is mostly a syllabary based on V syllables. |
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| Due to the high frequency of pf disyllabic roots, of the kind CVCV, CVN, or CVV, Mande was written in syllabary. |
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| Perhaps most remarkable of all was the syllabary of the Cherokee language, developed in 1821 by Sequoyah, a Cherokee who had served with the U. S. Army in the Creek War. |
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| In syllabic scripts, such as the Inuktitut syllabary, each sign represents a whole syllable. |
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| It shouldn't be hard to come up with a musical syllabary in which pitches code for vowels and timbres code for consonants. |
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| Other theorists proposed Asian origins based on the premise that cloaked Chinese characters existed within syllabary of the Voynich Manuscript. |
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| Ultimately, his syllabary included 86 symbols. |
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| Tennessee, Sequoyah, developed a syllabary for the Cherokee language, the first and only writing system created independently by a non-literate people. |
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| The Cypriot syllabary is attested in Cyprus from the 11th century BC until its gradual abandonment in the late Classical period, in favor of the standard Greek alphabet. |
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