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Syllabic

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Syllabic may refer to:

  • Syllable, a unit of speech sound, considered the building block of words
  • Syllabary, writing system using symbols for syllables
  • Abugida, writing system using symbols for consonant-vowel combinations (previously called syllabic and syllabic alphabet)
  • Syllabic octal, octal representation of 8-bit syllables or bytes
  • Syllabic verse, poetry that has a certain number of syllables per line
  • Syllabic text setting in music, in which each syllable is matched to a single note, as opposed to melismatic

See also

  • Syllable (disambiguation)
  • Semi-syllable (disambiguation)
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