Example sentences for: syllabary

How can you use “syllabary” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It consists of borrowed Chinese ideograms (characters known as kanji , the hiragana syllabary used for Japanese words not covered by kanji , the katakana syllabary used for foreign words, and the Roman alphabet known as romanji usually used for abbreviations like UN and acronyms like GATT .

  • The text is punctuated here and there by tables showing the progressive development of selected symbols (as, for example, in Sumerian), the Devanagari syllabary (in which several modern and ancient Indian languages are written), the Hebrew, Arabic, and other alphabets, Chinese and Japanese writing, and attractive drawings showing the hieroglyphic (with sound values in English orthography).


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast