A script whose signs each represent a whole syllable, typically a consonant plus vowel, with no visible graphic relationship between signs sharing a consonant or a vowel, per Daniels and Bright. Belongs here: Hiragana and Katakana, Japan's two syllabaries, Cherokee Syllabary, and the Bronze Age Aegean scripts Linear A and Linear B. Does not belong here: an abugida, whose consonant-vowel signs are visibly built from a shared base letter plus a modifying mark, which a true syllabary's signs are not.
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1. Wikipedia: Linear B
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The script predates the Greek alphabet by several centuries, the earliest known examples dating to around 1450 BC.
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