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Definition of Syllabic script

1. Noun. A writing system whose characters represent syllables.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Syllabic Script

Literary usage of Syllabic script

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Appleton's New Practical Cyclopedia: A New Work of Reference Based Upon the edited by Marcus Benjamin, Arthur Elmore Bostwick, Gerald Van Casteel, George Jotham Hagar (1920)
"The Persians derived an alphabet of some fifty characters from the syllabic script, but did not use it exclusively. The separate signs of the cuneiform ..."

2. The Civilization of Babylonia and Assyria: Its Remains, Language, History by Morris Jastrow (1915)
"... after adopting the non-Semitic mode of writing and taking the step of converting it from an ideographic to a mixed ideographic and syllabic script, ..."

3. The Oldest Civilization of Greece: Studies of the Mycenaean Age by Harry Reginald Hall (1901)
"The most striking of these peculiarly Cypriote characteristics was the syllabic script which was used by the Hellenic inhabitants. ..."

4. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus by John Linton Myres (1914)
"... and a syllabic script peculiar to Cyprus itself The Cypriote examples of Minoan script are very rare, and are unrepresented in this Collection. ..."

5. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1839)
"... the advantages of ideographic script whilst acquiring, by a judicious arrangement of radicals and phonetics, the advantages of syllabic script, ..."

6. Further Discoveries of Cretan and Aegean Script: With Libyan and Proto by Arthur Evans (1898)
"... found by Professor Petrie in Egypt and by Mr. Bliss at Lachish; on the other hand with the syllabic script of Cyprus and some Anatolian regions. ..."

7. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"So far as the language is concerned, there is not much difference between it and the Rüppell inscriptions, which are written in the syllabic script ..."

8. Educational Problems by Granville Stanley Hall (1911)
"The Japanese took the further step of evolving syllabic script. Every step upward on this line comes when one people take over the descriptive modes of ..."

9. Appleton's New Practical Cyclopedia: A New Work of Reference Based Upon the edited by Marcus Benjamin, Arthur Elmore Bostwick, Gerald Van Casteel, George Jotham Hagar (1920)
"The Persians derived an alphabet of some fifty characters from the syllabic script, but did not use it exclusively. The separate signs of the cuneiform ..."

10. The Civilization of Babylonia and Assyria: Its Remains, Language, History by Morris Jastrow (1915)
"... after adopting the non-Semitic mode of writing and taking the step of converting it from an ideographic to a mixed ideographic and syllabic script, ..."

11. The Oldest Civilization of Greece: Studies of the Mycenaean Age by Harry Reginald Hall (1901)
"The most striking of these peculiarly Cypriote characteristics was the syllabic script which was used by the Hellenic inhabitants. ..."

12. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus by John Linton Myres (1914)
"... and a syllabic script peculiar to Cyprus itself The Cypriote examples of Minoan script are very rare, and are unrepresented in this Collection. ..."

13. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1839)
"... the advantages of ideographic script whilst acquiring, by a judicious arrangement of radicals and phonetics, the advantages of syllabic script, ..."

14. Further Discoveries of Cretan and Aegean Script: With Libyan and Proto by Arthur Evans (1898)
"... found by Professor Petrie in Egypt and by Mr. Bliss at Lachish; on the other hand with the syllabic script of Cyprus and some Anatolian regions. ..."

15. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"So far as the language is concerned, there is not much difference between it and the Rüppell inscriptions, which are written in the syllabic script ..."

16. Educational Problems by Granville Stanley Hall (1911)
"The Japanese took the further step of evolving syllabic script. Every step upward on this line comes when one people take over the descriptive modes of ..."

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