title: Syllabic
text: # Syllabic
  
  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
  