| One page was written in our syllabary, which is our alphabet, and the other page was written in English. |
| Similarly, a syllabary or an alphabet would be quite useless for Chinese, a language with a staggering degree of homophony. |
| Akkadian is written with wedges on clay, and has a syllabary containing several hundred signs. |
| Their equivalent of an alphabet was similar to a Japanese syllabary, where each symbol stood for a syllable in their tongue. |
| 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. |
