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Example sentences for: syllabic
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As the speakers of various languages applied it to their needs, it became somewhat more sophisticated; the Elamites, for example, were able to economize on the number of symbols by assigning to most of them syllabic identity, a major step toward the development of alphabetic writing.
Many thousands of items in contemporary urban Japanese usage are adapted English words, nativized by reshaping their syllabic patterns into forms that can be written in katakana symbols and pronounced without difficulty.
Indeed, though it is a matter of degree, I find it difficult to pronounce a word like organism with a syllabic Z\?
Coulmas's clear exposition of the history of writing systems traces the development of various kinds of writing systems--ideographic, pictographic, morphemic, syllabic, phonemic, and phonetic--through history, discussing them individually, describing how certain ancient scripts were deciphered, and presenting his cogent arguments for regarding at least some aspects of language through the analysis of writing.
(In this town, one sure mark of a commercial-turned-residential neighborhood is a syllabic acronym.