Sentences with 'syllabic'
Example sentences and phrases with the word syllabic and other words derived from it.
• « As early as 1300 BCE, building on the work of the earlier Canaanites, the Phoenicians developed a syllabic alphabet that formed the basis of Greek and Roman writing much later. »
• « A syllabic alphabet has characters that represent sounds, rather than characters that represent things or concepts. These alphabets are much smaller and less complex than symbolic alphabets. »
• « It is possible for a non-specialist to learn to read and write using a syllabic alphabet much more quickly than using a symbolic alphabet (such as Egyptian hieroglyphs or Chinese characters). »
• « From the Phoenician version, the Ionian Greeks developed their own syllabic alphabet (the earlier Greek writing system, Linear B, disappeared during the Greek Dark Ages). »