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Syllabary vs Orthography - What's the difference?

syllabary | orthography |

As nouns the difference between syllabary and orthography

is that syllabary is (orthography) a table or list of syllabic letters or syllables while orthography is the study of correct spelling according to established usage.

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.

    orthography

    Noun

    (orthographies)
  • The study of correct spelling according to established usage.
  • The aspect of language study concerned with letters and their sequences in words.
  • Spelling; the method of representing a language or the sounds of language by written symbols.
  • (architecture) Orthographic projection; especially its use to draw an elevation, vertical projection etc. of a building.
  • Derived terms

    * orthographer * orthographic * orthographical * orthographically * orthographist

    Synonyms

    * spelling