(1) So I got into university knowing only the Romanized syllabary .(2) Cherokee is written with a syllabary invented independently by Sequoyah in the 1830s.(3) One page was written in our syllabary , which is our alphabet, and the other page was written in English.(4) Each kana, as these two systems are called, is a separate phonetic syllabary and each hiragana character has a corresponding katakana character.(5) Linear-B was a syllabary - each character represented a complete syllable.(6) Eight in 10 foreigners attending Japanese-language schools can read hiragana Japanese cursive syllabary but only around five in 10 can read Roman characters, a survey conducted by the Cultural Affairs Agency said Thursday.(7) Their equivalent of an alphabet was similar to a Japanese syllabary , where each symbol stood for a syllable in their tongue.(8) Over time, the continual re-use of the same characters to represent sounds led to the evolution of a syllabary based on the sounds of the spoken language.(9) While disappointing for epigraphy fans, the find adds 101 characters to the Isthmian syllabary and should represent a step toward retrieving Olmec history.(10) It was enough that we be able to read the syllabary .(11) They also write these first and last names with Japanese characters - not with the phonetic syllabary used for foreign names.(12) At the same time, a sophisticated syllabary developed.(13) He used this experience to complete the translation into English of a manuscript on healing, originally in the Sequoya syllabary , which had been begun by another scholar.(14) This same paradigm of identical shapes in varying orientations made the syllabary easy to learn, resulting in a high rate of literacy among the Cree people.(15) Akkadian is written with wedges on clay, and has a syllabary containing several hundred signs.(16) A similar system in use in Japan at about the same time, known as man'yogana, eventually evolved into hiragana, one of the syllabaries used to write modern Japanese.
