A syllabary is a phonetic writing system like an alphabet Unlike an alphabet the sound-unit which is written is a syllable rather than a letter In Japanese KataKana the sound "ka" is represented by one glyph Syllabaries tend to be bigger than alphabets (KataKana requires about 60 different characters, while the Korean Hangul requires tens of thousands)
A set of written characters in which each character represents a syllable -- for example, a consonant sound followed by a vowel sound Examples of syllabaries include Japanese Katakana/Hiragana and the Indic scripts
An alphabet whose symbols typically represent multiple phonemes of a language These multiple phonemes are generally combinations of consonants and vowels
A writing system whose characters are composed of syllables Ethiopic is an example of a syllabary
A table of syllables; more especially, a table of the indivisible syllabic symbols used in certain languages, as the Japanese and Cherokee, instead of letters