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What is the difference between alphabet and syllabary?

alphabet | syllabary |

As nouns the difference between alphabet and syllabary

is that alphabet is the set of letters used when writing in a language while syllabary is a table or list of syllabic letters or syllables.

As a verb alphabet

is to designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.

alphabet

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The set of letters used when writing in a language.
    • The Greek alphabet has only twenty-four letters.
    In the first year of school, pupils are taught to recite the alphabet .
  • A writing system in which letters represent phonemes.
  • # A true alphabet, a writing system in which there are letters for the consonant and'' vowel phonemes.
  • (computer science) A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols.
    • Let L be a regular language over the alphabet \Sigma .
  • (India) An individual letter of an alphabet; an alphabetic character.
  • * 2002 , Eugene E. Dike, African myth of creation in African form of writing , Monsenstein und Vannerdat, ISBN 3936600406, page 30:
    • We realize the fact that the alphabet A has been used in many world scripts as a vowel with the others AEIOU.
  • * 2005 , Satinder Bal Gupta, Comprehensive Discrete Mathematics & Structures , Laxmi Publications, page 237:
    • There are 26 alphabets in English.
  • The simplest rudiments; elements.
  • * Macaulay
    • The very alphabet of our law.

    Derived terms

    () * alphabetic, alphabetical * alphabetize * alphabet soup * alphanumeric, alphanumerical * Cyrillic alphabet * Greek alphabet * Latin alphabet * Phoenician alphabet * phonetic alphabet * Roman alphabet * Russian alphabet * Ukrainian alphabet

    Synonyms

    * , absey

    See also

    * abjad * abugida * script * syllabary * writing system *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.

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    syllabary

    English

    Noun

    (syllabaries)
  • (orthography) A table or list of syllabic letters or syllables
  • (orthography) A writing system where each character represents a complete syllable
    • It shouldn't be hard to come up with a musical syllabary in which pitches code for vowels and timbres code for consonants.

    Related terms

    * syllable