Syllabries? (was Re: "Colorless Green")

In a message dated 10/1/00 5:36:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time, fortytwo@GDN.NET
writes:

> > syllabries are wonderful. I took a year of Japanese and fell in love with
>  > them, although the one I'm using is a regular syllabry like that of
Hebrew
> or
>  > Sanskrit instead of having seperate ones for each CV combination.
>
>  Those aren't syllabries.  The one Hebrew has is called an abjad, or
>  consonantal script.  Sanskrit uses a devangeri.  A syllabry actually
>  marks syllables, like Japanese.
boy, you think you know the right word for something....heh. too much
terminology! at least syllabry is closer than alphabet. although in the case
of Hebrew, I should be specifying "Hebrew with the vowel markings", as
opposed to the no-vowels kind.... I believe Arabic is like that too. In any
case, Finvaran behaves like this:

there's a symbol for "k-" (as an example).
diacritics can be added for each of the five vowels, for -y-, and for doubled
consonant (though not at the beginning of a word or after "n" on that
last).... for example, the most complex syllable (using an "-a" to
demonstrate) based around the "k-" character is "-kkya". There are also six
characters for the syllabic vowels (i.e. the entire syllable is "a") and
final n (like Japanese syllabic n). The basic characters for "akkyan" would
be a(syl)-k-n(final) with diacritics on the k, and this counts as 3 syllables
for musical or poetic purposes.

so....what is the proper term for such a system?

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