Syllabic writing began several hundred years before the first letters.
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This syllabic writing inspired other groups across Canada to adapt the syllabics to their languages.
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By then, both Protestant and Catholic missionaries were using and actively propagating syllabic writing.
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The basic principles of Canadian syllabic writing are outlined in the article for Canadian Aboriginal syllabics.
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In 1911, she offered an interpretation of the Phaistos Disc as Homeric Greek, syllabic writing.
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The Bornean Visayans, used a form of syllabic writing, which they introduced wherever they spread.
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However, the ease and utility of syllabic writing ensured its continued survival, despite European resistance to supporting it.
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In comparison, syllabic writing systems such as Japanese kana and Chinese Yi script, there are also many Chinese alphabets.
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Developing around the same time, the Egyptian system of hieroglyphics also began as a pictographic script and evolved into a system of syllabic writing.
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The oldest incomplete annotated piece of ancient music is a Hurrian song, a hymn in Ugaritic cuneiform syllabic writing which was dedicated to Nikkal.