syllabary

plural syllabaries

1. communicationsA table or list of syllabic letters or syllables.
2. communicationsA 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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   Over a period of several weeks, Kisimi developed what linguists call a syllabary, which is a set of characters, each representing a sound or syllable. Kisimi's syllabary for the Mende language consisted of 195 characters. He named the system Ki-ka-ku for the first three letters of the syllabary.

   2007, Suzanne LeVert, Cultures of the World: Sierra Leone, page 100

   Bamum is a syllabary developed between 1896 and 1910, used for writing the Bamum language in western Cameroon.

   2022 September 28, “Version 15.0 – Core Specification”, in Unicode, page 793