syllabarium

[ sil-uh-bair-ee-uhm ]

noun

, plural syl·la·bar·i·a [sil-, uh, -, bair, -ee-, uh].

1. syllabary.

Word History and Origins

Origin of syllabarium¹

From New Latin; syllabary

Example Sentences

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 Project Gutenberg

This alphabet is a syllabarium.

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Like Doala, too, he had a language adapted to a syllabarium.

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It also appears that the Syllabarium of the Universe, and typically the open two-letter syllables of Language, as bi, be, ba, correspond as analogues with the Physical Principles which lie at the basis of the Sciences; and finally, that the completed Root-Words, typically the closed three-letter syllables, or usual monosyllabic root-words, as min, men, man, correspond with the descriptive generalizations or general averages of Natural Science, as Universe itself, Matter, Mind, Movement, etc.

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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.

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