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Syllabary vs Alphabetic - What's the difference?

syllabary | alphabetic |

As a noun syllabary

is (orthography) a table or list of syllabic letters or syllables.

As a adjective alphabetic is

of or relating to an alphabet, especially the characters a to z, both uppercase and lowercase.

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.

    alphabetic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * alphabetick (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Of or relating to an alphabet, especially the characters A to Z, both uppercase and lowercase.