Search results for "Syllabary" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • A syllabary is a set of written symbols that represent (or approximate ... alphabet (ca. 1400 B.C.E.) Byblos syllabary and the South Arabian alphabet ...
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  • phonetic symbols from the Sumerian syllabary, together with logograms ... Yet even in those days, the Babylonian syllabary remained a mixture of ideographic ...
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  • Zhuyin (sometimes called Bopomofo) is a semi-syllabary used to phonetically ... are also an abugida rather than a syllabary as their name would imply ...
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  • Languages that used a syllabary or abugida instead of an alphabet ... the Japanese characters of the hiragana syllabary as "to-u-ki-yo-u" ...
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  • their model of government. Due to the syllabary of the Cherokee language ... [[Image:Cherokee Syllabary.svg|thumb|left|Cherokee Syllabary]] ...
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  • writings are Mycenaean, written in the Linear B syllabary on clay tablets. These documents contain prosaic records largely concerned with trade (lists ...
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  • Armed with the Persian text, and with about a third of the syllabary made available to him by the work of Grotefend, Rawlinson set to work on ...
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  • to many more kinds of people. In contrast, the syllabary used in Mycenaean Greek palace sites at about the same time (called Linear B) was so cumbersome ...
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  • The Inuktitut syllabary used in Canada is based on the Cree syllabary devised by the missionary James Evans. The present form of the syllabary ...
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  • form of statues. An ancient Indian Sanskrit syllabary script known as siddham (Jap. shittan 悉曇 or bonji 梵字) is used to write mantras. A core ...
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  • Burmese; Yi is written using the Yi script, a syllabary which was standardized in 1974. ===Colleges and universities=== *Southwestern University ...
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  • Sumerian language, and a complicated and extensive syllabary. words and phrases. The characters of the syllabary were all arranged and named ...
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  • The Maya civilization is a Mesoamerican culture, noted for having the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas ...
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  • Acronyms, initialisms, and alphabetisms are abbreviations that are formed using the initial components in a phrase or name. These components ...
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  • two standard orderings for the Japanese syllabary, was also written during ... discouraged from learning more than a syllabary system for transcribing ...
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  • The Cyrillic script, Slavonic script, or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated ...
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  • word. In syllabic scripts, such as the Inuktitut syllabary, each sign represents a whole syllable. In logographic scripts, each sign represents an entire ...
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  • Japan (日本, Nihon or Nippon, officially日本国, Nihon-koku or Nippon-koku) is an island country that sits off the east coast of Asia. Japan ...
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