OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 23423

syllabary

/ˈsɪləb(ə)ɹi/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
silabario
A writing system where each character represents a complete syllable.
Bamum is a syllabary developed between 1896 and 1910, used for writing the Bamum language in western Cameroon.
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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