Syllabic vs Alphabetic - What's the difference?
syllabic | alphabetic |
Of, relating to, or consisting of a syllable or syllables.
Pronounced with every syllable distinct.
(linguistics) Designating a sound that is or can be the most sonorant segment of a syllable, as a vowel or a resonant. In the word riddle (r?d'l), the two syllabic sounds are the (i?) and the (l).
Of, or being a form of verse, based on the number of syllables in a line rather than on the arrangement of accents or quantities.
Of or relating to an alphabet, especially the characters A to Z, both uppercase and lowercase.