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  1. A semi-syllabary is a writing system that behaves partly as an alphabet and partly as a syllabary. The main group of semi-syllabic writing are the Paleohispanic scripts of ancient Spain, a group of semi-syllabaries that transform redundant plosive consonants of the Phoenician alphabet into syllabograms .

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  2. syllabary, a set of written symbols used to represent the syllables of the words of a language. Writing systems that use syllabaries wholly or in part include Japanese, Cherokee, the ancient Cretan scripts (Linear A and Linear B), and various Indic and cuneiform writing systems.

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  3. Semi-syllable may refer to: minor syllable, in phonology. a glyph of a semi-syllabary, in orthography.

  4. semisyllabary (plural semisyllabaries) A writing system that uses a combined alphabet and syllabary . Synonym: semi-alphabet. Alternative form: semi-syllabary.

  5. semi- syllabary (plural semi-syllabaries) Alternative form of semisyllabary. Categories: English lemmas. English nouns.

  6. A semi-syllabary is a writing system that behaves partly as an alphabet and partly as a syllabary. The main group of semi-syllabic writing are the Paleohispanic scripts of ancient Spain, a group of semi-syllabaries that transform redundant plosive consonants of the Phoenician alphabet into syllabograms .

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