Editing Syllabary (section)

== Types ==
[[Image:Syllable diagram.png|thumb|Each [[syllable]] (σ) branches into [[consonant]]al [[Voice onset time|onset]] (ω) and [[syllable rime|rime]] (ρ) that is divided into [[syllable nucleus|nucleus]] (ν) and [[syllable coda|coda]] (κ), non-/supra-segmental parameters like [[tone (linguistics)|tone]] (τ) affect the syllable as a whole]]
A [[writing system]] using a syllabary is ''complete'' when it covers all syllables in the corresponding spoken language without requiring complex [[orthography|orthographic / graphemic]] rules, like [[implicit coda]]s ({{angbr|C<sub>1</sub>V}} ⇒ /C<sub>1</sub>VC<sub>2</sub>/), [[silent vowel]]s ({{angbr|C<sub>1</sub>V<sub>1</sub>+C<sub>2</sub>V<sub>2</sub>}} ⇒ /C<sub>1</sub>V<sub>1</sub>C<sub>2</sub>/) or [[echo vowel]]s ({{angbr|C<sub>1</sub>V<sub>1</sub>+C<sub>2</sub>V<sub>1</sub>}} ⇒ /C<sub>1</sub>V<sub>1</sub>C<sub>2</sub>/). This loosely corresponds to ''shallow'' orthographies in alphabetic writing systems.{{cn|date=July 2020}}

''True'' syllabograms are those that encompass all parts of a syllable, i.e., initial onset, medial nucleus and final coda, but since onset and coda are optional in at least some languages, there are ''middle'' (nucleus), ''start'' (onset-nucleus), ''end'' (nucleus-coda) and ''full'' (onset-nucleus-coda) true syllabograms. Most syllabaries only feature one or two kinds of syllabograms and form other syllables by graphemic rules.

Syllabograms, hence syllabaries, are ''pure'', ''analytic'' or ''arbitrary'' if they do not share graphic similarities that correspond to phonic similarities, e.g. the symbol for ''ka'' does not resemble in any predictable way the symbol for ''ki'', nor the symbol for ''a''. Otherwise, they are ''synthetic'', if they vary by onset, rime, nucleus ''or'' coda, or ''systematic'', if they vary by all of them.{{citation needed|date=August 2012}}
Some scholars, e.g., Daniels,<ref>Peter Daniels, 1996. "The Study of Writing Systems", p. 4. In: Daniels & Bright, ''The World's Writing Systems''.</ref> reserve the general term for analytic syllabaries and invent other terms ([[abugida]], [[abjad]]) as necessary.