syllabic script

English Thesaurus

1. a writing system whose characters represent syllables (noun.communication)

hypernym	:	script,
definition	:	a particular orthography or writing system (noun.communication)

hyponym	:	devanagari, devanagari script, nagari, nagari script,
definition	:	a syllabic script used in writing Sanskrit and Hindi (noun.communication)

instance hyponym	:	linear b,
definition	:	a syllabic script used in Greece in the 13th century B.C. (noun.communication)