A syllabary is a phonetic writing system consisting of symbols representing syllables. A syllable is often made up of a consonant plus a vowel or a single vowel.
The illustration on the right shows a selection of symbols from Japanese Hiragana, and Inuktitut. In Hiragana each syllable is represented by a separate symbol. In Inuktitut the orientation of the symbols is used indicate different vowels, and the small symbol is used to write syllable final consonants, as in Inuktitut.
 Cherokee (Tsalagi) |
 Cree (Nêhiyaw) |
 Eskayan |
 Hiragana (Japanese) |
 Inuktitut |
 Katakana (Japanese) |
 Naskapi (Innu Aimun) |
 Ndjuká |
 Ojibwe (Anishinaabe) |
 Yi (Nosu) |
 Blackfoot (Siksika) |
 Carrier (Dulkw'ahke) |
 Nüshu |
 Vai |
 Bamum |
 Caroline Island Script |
 Celtiberian |
 Cypriot |
 Iberian |
 Kpelle |
 Loma |
 Mende |
transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) are used extensively throughout this website. The IPA transcriptions are the letters and other symbols which appear in square bracketts, like this [b], [p]. etc.
You can learn which sounds are represented by these letters and symbols at:
http://www.unil.ch/ling/page30184.html
http://www.unil.ch/ling/page12580.html (en français)
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