Syllabogram
Okay, so you know how when we read, we see lots of letters on a page and we say them out loud to make words? Well, sometimes in different languages, they have special symbols called syllabograms that stand for a whole syllable instead of just one letter.
Imagine you're trying to read a book in a language you don't know very well. Sometimes, instead of seeing letters all jumbled up, you might see pictures of little things like a bird or a stick or a circle. Those pictures would be like the syllabograms because they stand for a whole syllable, just like how the letters stand for individual sounds in a word.
Syllabograms are used in many different languages, like Japanese and Cherokee, to help people read and write more easily. It's kind of like a secret code that people who know the language can read, but people who don't can't understand. Pretty cool, huh?
Imagine you're trying to read a book in a language you don't know very well. Sometimes, instead of seeing letters all jumbled up, you might see pictures of little things like a bird or a stick or a circle. Those pictures would be like the syllabograms because they stand for a whole syllable, just like how the letters stand for individual sounds in a word.
Syllabograms are used in many different languages, like Japanese and Cherokee, to help people read and write more easily. It's kind of like a secret code that people who know the language can read, but people who don't can't understand. Pretty cool, huh?