syllabary

In the early 1800s Cherokee polymath Sequoyah invented the Cherokee syllabary of written characters.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 10, 2023

Each column has a letterpress piece with a Cherokee syllabary to spread awareness of the written language.

From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2022

Or, going back to the beginning of this chapter and Sequoyah’s syllabary, you may choose to take inspiration from something linguistic, an expression or a way of talking that is associated with your culture.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021

Only one motif looks out of place: the name “Maiku,” rendered in a phonetic Japanese syllabary.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 28, 2018

Surrounded by alphabets he could not understand, he instead independently reinvented a syllabary, unaware that the Minoans of Crete had already invented another syllabary 3,500 years previously.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

In addition, Japanese papers use flashy modern trappings such as airplanes, walkie-talkies and monotypes that can set some 2,200 Japanese syllabaries and Chinese ideographs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some syllabaries persist today, the most important being the kana syllabary that the Japanese use for telegrams, bank statements, and texts for blind readers.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Thus, the developmental sequence of uses for alphabetic writing was the reverse of that for the earlier systems of logograms and syllabaries.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Most such tailor-made systems modify existing alphabets, though some instead design syllabaries.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

The syllabaries explain this ideogram by "Assur," but it is very awkward that in these texts the identification with Assur occurs nowhere.

From Babylonian and Assyrian Literature by Anonymous