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Definition of Syllabaries
1. syllabary [n] - See also: syllabary
Lexicographical Neighbors of Syllabaries
Literary usage of Syllabaries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Expository Times by James Hastings, Ann Wilson Hastings, Edward Hastings (1889)
"It is the bilingual lists and syllabaries which form the basis of our knowledge
of the ... The latter class (the syllabaries) give the pronunciation or ..."
2. Primitive Civilizations: Or, Outlines of the History of Ownership in Archaic by Edith Jemima Simcox (1894)
"The verbs conjugated in the syllabaries are "to sell" and "to buy," and the mere
vocabulary is not without interest, as it shows the terms in use ..."
3. Assyrian Grammar with Chrestomathy and Glossary by Samuel Alfred Browne Mercer (1921)
"CHAPTER IV syllabaries § 12. For further practice, before going on to the study
of the ... These syllabaries were composed by the Babylonians and Assyrians ..."
4. A History of the Art of Writing by William Albert Mason (1920)
"... syllabaries AND MEDITERRANEAN SCRIPT IN the last chapter we stated that the
origin of the Phoenician alphabet is a mooted question. ..."
5. The Classical Poetry of the Japanese by Basil Hall Chamberlain (1880)
"Together with a Grammatical Analysis of each Word, Explanations of the Ideographs
by Extracts from the Bi- Lingual syllabaries, and Eponyms, etc. ..."
6. The Expository Times by James Hastings, Ann Wilson Hastings, Edward Hastings (1889)
"It is the bilingual lists and syllabaries which form the basis of our knowledge
of the ... The latter class (the syllabaries) give the pronunciation or ..."
7. Primitive Civilizations: Or, Outlines of the History of Ownership in Archaic by Edith Jemima Simcox (1894)
"The verbs conjugated in the syllabaries are "to sell" and "to buy," and the mere
vocabulary is not without interest, as it shows the terms in use ..."
8. Assyrian Grammar with Chrestomathy and Glossary by Samuel Alfred Browne Mercer (1921)
"CHAPTER IV syllabaries § 12. For further practice, before going on to the study
of the ... These syllabaries were composed by the Babylonians and Assyrians ..."
9. A History of the Art of Writing by William Albert Mason (1920)
"... syllabaries AND MEDITERRANEAN SCRIPT IN the last chapter we stated that the
origin of the Phoenician alphabet is a mooted question. ..."
10. The Classical Poetry of the Japanese by Basil Hall Chamberlain (1880)
"Together with a Grammatical Analysis of each Word, Explanations of the Ideographs
by Extracts from the Bi- Lingual syllabaries, and Eponyms, etc. ..."
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