syllabary

Plural: syllabaries

Noun

• a writing system whose characters represent syllables
• A table or list of syllabic letters or syllables.
• A writing system where each character represents a complete syllable.

Examples

• It shouldn't be hard to come up with a musical syllabary in which pitches code for vowels and timbres code for consonants.

Synonyms

syllabic script

Related Words

syllable