syllabarium
Americannoun
plural
syllabariaEtymology
Origin of syllabarium
From New Latin; see origin at syllabary
Example Sentences
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Discarding then the Assyrian notion of a syllabarium, with the enormous complication which it involves, the Medes strove to reduce sounds to their ultimate elements, and to represent these last alone by symbols.
The highly complicated syllabarium of the Eastern Semites is reduced to a phonetic system; we might almost say to an alphabet of about 40 letters.
From The History of Antiquity Vol. V. by Duncker, Max
Like Doala, too, he had a language adapted to a syllabarium.
From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
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