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The ic'' writing system. The English Language , on the other hand, allows more complex syllable structures, making it cumbersome to write English words with a syllabary. A "pure" syllabary would require a separate glyph for every syllable in English. Thus you would need separate symbols for "bag," "beg," "big," "bog," "bug" ; "bad," "bed," "bid," "bod," "bud," etc. However, such pure systems are rare. A work-around to this problem, common to several syllabaries around the world, is to write an echo vowel, as if the Syllable Coda was a second syllable: ''ba-ga'' or ''ba-gi'' for "bag", etc. Another common approach is to simply ignore the coda, so that "bag" would be written ''ba''. This obviously would not work well for English. Languages that use syllabic writing include Mycenae an Greek ( Linear B ), the Native American language Cherokee , the African language Vai , the English-based Creole Language Ndyuka (the Afaka Script ), and the Moso language of China (the Nü Shu syllabary). The Chinese , Cuneiform , and Maya Script s are largely syllabic in nature, although based on Logogram s. They are therefore sometimes referred to as ''logosyllabic''. Indian Language s and Ethiopian Languages have a type of Alphabet called an '' Abugida '' or ''alphasyllabary''. These are sometimes mistaken for syllabaries, but unlike in syllabaries, all syllables starting with the same consonant are based on the same symbol, and generally more than one symbol is needed to represent a syllable. In the 19th century these systems were called ''syllabics'', a term which has survived in the name of Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics (also an abugida). SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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