Syllabic
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Syllabic may refer to:
- Syllable, a unit of speech sound, considered the building block of words
- Syllabic consonant, a consonant that forms the nucleus of a syllable
- Syllabary, writing system using symbols for syllables
- Abugida, writing system using symbols for consonant-vowel combinations (previously called syllabic and syllabic alphabet)
- Canadian Aboriginal syllabics, a family of abugidas used to write a number of Aboriginal Canadian languages
- Syllabic octal, octal representation of 8-bit syllables or bytes
- Syllabic verse, poetry that has a certain number of syllables per line
- Syllabic text setting in music, in which each syllable is matched to a single note, as opposed to melismatic