This word is of foreign origin, likely influenced by the English word and the Spanish word silabario.
silabarya
syllabary
A syllabary is a phonetic writing system consisting of symbols representing syllables. It is different from an alphabet, in which letters represent sounds.
Contemporary Japanese uses two syllabaries together called kana — namely, hiragana and katakana.
The native Filipino “alphabet” baybayin is actually a syllabary and not an alphabet. Each character or symbol represents a syllable.
