Word familynounsyllabarysyllabicationsyllabicitysyllabicssyllabificationsyllabismsyllableadjectivesyllabicsyllabicalsyllabledadverbsyllabicallyverbsyllabicatesyllabifysyllabize
syllabic• Some phonologists maintain that a syllabic consonant is really a case of a vowel and a consonant that have become combined.• Since in every language there are far more syllables than phonemes, syllabicrepresentation must inevitably require more symbols than phonemic representation.• Moreover, the more phonologically complex a language, the more symbols will be needed for syllabic representation.• They provide a fixedinventory of syllabicsigns from which to draw for phonetic representation of spoken words.• syllabicsounds• Syllabicwriting requires mastery of what may be several hundred or several thousand symbols that are needed for syllabic representation.• a syllabic writing system