syllabary

Etymology

From Neo-Latin syllabārium, from syllaba.

noun

  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.

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