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The Japanese language uses two syllabaries, namely hiragana and katakana (developed around 700 AD). They are mainly used to write grammatical words as well as foreign words, e.g. hotel is ho-te-ru in Japanese. Because Japanese uses a lot of CV (consonant + vowel) type syllables, a syllabary is well suited to write the language. (It is sometimes argued that the Japanese kana should be called moraic writing systems or the like, rather than syllabaries as they are based on morae, not syllables.)
The English language, on the other hand, allows more complex syllable structures, making it cumbersome to write English words with a syllabary. To write English using a syllabary, every possible syllable in English would have to have a separate symbol. Thus, you would need separate symbols for "bag," "beg," "big," "bog," "bug;" "bad," "bed," "bid," "bod," "bud," etc.
Other languages that use syllabic writing include Mycenaean Greek ( Linear B) and Native American languagesNative American languages are the indigenous languages of the Americas, spoken from Alaska and Greenland to the southern tip of South America. The Native American languages consist of dozens of distinct language families as well as many language isolates; such as Cherokee. Several languages of the Ancient Near EastThe term Ancient Near East or Ancient Orient encompasses the early civilizations predating Classical Antiquity in the region roughly corresponding to that described by the modern term Middle East ( Egypt, the Fertile Crescent, Anatolia), during the time r used CuneiformCuneiform writing is one of the earliest known forms of written expression. Created by the Sumerians around 3500 BC, cuneiform began as a system of pictographs. Through repeated use over time, the pictorial representations became simplified and more abstr, which is a syllabary with some non-syllabic elements.
The Indian languages and the Ethiopian languagesIntroduction Amharic is a Semitic language spoken in Northern Central Ethiopia, where it is the official language. Outside Ethiopia, Amharic is the language of some 2. 7 million emigrants (notably in Egypt, Israel and Sweden). It is written using a writin have alphabetAn alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters—basic written symbols—each of which roughly represents or represented historically a phoneme of a spoken language. This as distinguished from other writing systems such as ideograms, in which symbols rs (called abugidas by some scholars) that are sometimes mistaken for syllabaries. Canadian aboriginal syllabic writing is also an abugida, although it is not usually called one.
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