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What is a syllabary?

What is a syllabary? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (orthography) A table or list of syllabic letters or syllables
  2. (orthography) A writing system where each character represents a complete syllable
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One page was written in our syllabary, which is our alphabet, and the other page was written in English.
While disappointing for epigraphy fans, the find adds 101 characters to the Isthmian syllabary and should represent a step toward retrieving Olmec history.
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.
Nowhere is there any trace of a manual, syllabary, catechism or reader printed in the southern French medieval dialects.
Each kana, as these two systems are called, is a separate phonetic syllabary and each hiragana character has a corresponding katakana character.
Whether the linear signs are a true alphabet or a syllabary we do not know.

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