different between syllabary vs manyogana

syllabary

English

Etymology

From Neo-Latin syllab?rium, from syllaba

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?s?l??b??i/, /s??læb??i/

Noun

syllabary (plural syllabaries)

  1. (orthography) A table or list of syllabic letters or syllables
  2. (orthography) A writing system where each character represents a complete syllable
    It shouldn't be hard to come up with a musical syllabary in which pitches code for vowels and timbres code for consonants.
    Hyponyms: alphasyllabary, abugida

Hypernyms

  • signary

Meronyms

  • syllabogram

Related terms

  • syllable

Translations

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manyogana

English

Etymology

From Japanese romanization man'y?gana of ????.

Noun

manyogana (uncountable)

  1. An ancient/early Japanese syllabary in which Chinese characters represented sounds instead of their regular meaning as they again do today in the form of kanji; it was the predecessor of hiragana and katakana, present Japanese syllabaries; used in the Manyosh?, a poetic anthology.

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