Syllabogram

Syllabograms are signs used to write the syllables (or morae) of words. This term is most often used in the context of a writing system otherwise organized on different principles—an alphabet where most symbols represent phonemes, or a logographic script where most symbols represent morphemes—but a system based mostly on syllabograms is a syllabary.

Syllabograms in the Maya script most frequently take the form of V (vowel) or CV (consonant-vowel) syllables of which approximately 83 are known. CVC signs are present as well. Two modern well-known examples of syllabaries consisting mostly of CV syllabograms are the Japanese kana, used to represent the same sounds in different occasions. Syllabograms tend not to be used for languages with more complicated syllables: for example English phonotactics allows syllables as complex as CCCVCCCC (as in /ˈstrɛŋkθs/ strengths), generating many thousands of possible syllables and making the use of syllabograms cumbersome.[1]

Types of writing system that use syllabograms
gollark: PotatOS doesn't use bytecode and do not break backward compatibility or else.
gollark: it was never used.
gollark: The emergency shutdown thing was added after an issue when I retasked all PotatOS machines to spam a rednet chat server and couldn't stop them.
gollark: The SPUDNET interface is highly concurrent™ so you could just send a shutdown command while it is doing other things and it'd work.
gollark: It just doesn't have a dedicated emergency shutdown thing now, since the interface for remote debugging got actual parallelism ages back.

References
  1. Chris Barker. "How many syllables does English have?". New York University. Archived from the original on 2016-08-22.
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