syllabary
Script of sounds
A syllabary is a writing system where each character represents a syllable rather than an individual sound.
Japanese hiragana and katakana are syllabaries—each symbol stands for a consonant-vowel combination like "ka" or "mi." This contrasts with alphabets, where characters represent single sounds, and with logographic systems like Chinese, where characters represent whole words or concepts.
Indigenous Southeastern nation
- CreeAlgonquian people of Canada
- InuktitutInuit people's language
- OjibweAlgonquian-speaking indigenous nation
- SequoyahCherokee literacy pioneer
revitalization · endangered · native · community · decolonization
Indigenous Southeastern nation
Prosodic duration unit
- graphemeMinimal written symbol unit
- phonemeMinimal distinctive sound unit
- orthographyStandard writing conventions
- logographyWriting system using word-symbols
kana · script · character · glyph · phonography · onset · coda · nucleus
Stylus-impressed ancient script
- CypriotNative of copper-named island
- MycenaeanAncient Greek Bronze Age culture
- AnatolianOf Asia Minor
- hieraticRelating to priests
demotic · Mayan · Mesoamerican · epigraphy · decipherment · inscription · tablet · codex
Cherokee
Indigenous Southeastern nation
- CreeAlgonquian people of Canada
- InuktitutInuit people's language
- OjibweAlgonquian-speaking indigenous nation
Sequoyah · revitalization · endangered · native · community · decolonization
Cherokee
Indigenous Southeastern nation
mora
Prosodic duration unit
- graphemeMinimal written symbol unit
- phonemeMinimal distinctive sound unit
- orthographyStandard writing conventions
logography · kana · script · character · glyph · phonography · onset · coda · nucleus
cuneiform
Stylus-impressed ancient script
hieratic · demotic · Mayan · Mesoamerican · epigraphy · decipherment · inscription · tablet · codex · stele
vowel
Unobstructed speech sound
- consonantIn agreement with
- pronunciationManner of speaking words
- phonologyScience of language sounds
mora · tone · pitch · stress · voiced · voiceless · nasal · diphthong · articulation · prosody
- communication systemsalphabet, sign language, Braille, Morse code, hieroglyphics
- language toolsdictionary, translation, translator, thesaurus, grammar books
- Japanesehiragana, katakana, kanji, particles, conjugation
- writing historyalphabet, cuneiform, hieroglyphics, hieroglyphs, scripts
- writing systemsalphabet, vowel, alphabets, Cyrillic alphabet, consonant
- ancient scriptsglyphs, cuneiform, hieroglyphs, hieroglyphics, Phoenician
syllabaryalphabet
Language's letter system
logography · Chinese characters · kanji · hieroglyphics · cuneiform
- Cherokee syllabaryScript for a tribal language