It has also met with the linguistic difficulty of the Ge'ez script being a syllabic system which does not distinguish long vowels from short ones.

Present day Blackfoot speakers use a Latin alphabet, and very few Blackfoot can still read - much less write - the syllabic system.

In this syllabic system, each symbol, which represents a consonant, can be written four ways, each direction representing its corresponding vowel.

He views English as having solely a syllabic system of measure, or metre.

Precolonial Ilocanos of all classes wrote in a syllabic system prior to European arrival.

Classic Yi is a syllabic logographic system of 8,000-10,000 glyphs.

The script was a mix between a logographic and a syllabic system.

However, little research has been done on syllabic writing systems, and "cross-linguistic studies of the acquired dyslexias and dysgraphias are scarce."

The alphabetic principle does not underlie logographic writing systems like Chinese or syllabic writing systems such as Japanese kana.

The development of the script spanned ideographic to syllabic systems, with the script's final and most prominent form known as "A-ka-u-ku."