When Ventris plugged some of the sounds of the Cypriot syllabary into the Linear B inscriptions, he came up with the word Knossos, the name of the city where Evans had discovered his tablets.

当文特里斯将塞浦路斯音节文字的音代入到线形文字 B 中时，他得到了 “克诺索斯” 这词，也就是伊文斯现泥板的城市的名字。

He knew that over centuries, place names tend to remain constant, and decided to compare Linear B to an ancient syllabary from the island of Cyprus.

他知道，即使历经数世纪，地名也大多保持不变，于是他决定将线形文字 B和塞浦路斯岛上的古代音节文字进行对比。

However, he did make two accurate observations: the tablets were administrative records, and the script was a syllabary, where each symbol represented both a consonant and a vowel, mixed with characters that each represented a whole word.

不过，他的确做出了两项准确的观察：这泥板是行政记录；文字是音节文字，其中的每号代表了一辅音加元音，并融进了一代表整词的字。

And this is true whether the writing system is a pictographic system like Chinese characters or a syllabary like the Japanese writing system or a pure alphabet like Hangul in Korean or the Latin alphabet or the Arabic script.

无论书写系统是象形文字如汉字，还是音节文字如日文，亦或是纯拼音文字如韩文的谚文、拉丁字母或阿拉伯字母，这一观点成立。

Nevertheless, the phonetic signs in Sumerian writing fell far short of a complete syllabary or alphabet.

然而，苏美尔文字中的语音号远远达不到完整的音节或字母表。

Linear B, the writing of Mycenaean Greece, was at least simpler, being based on a syllabary of about 90 signs plus logograms.

线形 B 是迈锡尼希腊的文字，至少更简单，它基于 90 号和语标的音节表。

For the same reason, we can be sure that the Linear B syllabary of Mycenaean Greece had been adapted by around 1400 B.C.from the Linear A syllabary of Minoan Crete.

出于同样的原因，我们可以肯定，希腊迈锡尼的线性 B 音表在公元前 1400 年左右就已经从克里特岛米诺斯的线性 A 音表改编而来。

The number of distinct signs (45) suggests a syllabary rather than an alphabet, but it is still undeciphered, and the forms of the signs are unlike those of any other known writing system.

不同号的数量（45）表明是音节文字而不是字母表，但它仍未被破译，而且号的形式与任何其他已知的书写系统不同。

Hence a possible interpretation seems to me idea diffusion, as in the case of Sequoyah's syllabary.

因此，在我看来，一种可能的解释是观念传播，就像塞阔亚的音节表一样。

Some syllabaries persist today, the most important being the kana syllabary that the Japanese use for telegrams, bank statements, and texts for blind readers.

有音节表至今仍然存在，其中最重要的是日本人在电报、银行对账单和盲人阅读文本中使用的假名音节表。

Sequoyah's syllabary is widely admired by professional linguists for its good fit to Cherokee sounds, and for the ease with which it can be learned.

Sequoyah 的音节表因其非常适合切罗基语的音且易于学习而受到专业语言学家的广泛赞赏。

Thus, the developmental sequence of uses for alphabetic writing was the reverse of that for the earlier systems of logograms and syllabaries.

因此，字母书写的使用展顺序与早期的语标和音节系统的展顺序相反。

Most such tailor-made systems modify existing alphabets, though some instead design syllabaries.

大多数此类定制系统会修改现有字母表，尽管有系统会设计音节表。

Similarly, Japan continues to use its horrendously cumbersome kanji writing system in preference to efficient alphabets or Japan's own efficient kana syllabary—because the prestige attached to kanji is so great.

同样，日本继续使用其极其繁琐的汉字书写系统，而不是高效的字母表或日本自己的高效假名音节——因为汉字的威望是如此之大。

The disk's script was a syllabary with more signs, of more complex form, than the Roman alphabet used by Gutenberg.

该光盘的文字是一种音节文字，与古腾堡使用的罗马字母相比，其号更多、形式更复杂。

The writing was no longer an ambiguous syllabary mixed with logograms but an alphabet borrowed from the Phoenician consonantal alphabet and improved by the Greek invention of vowels.

文字不再是混有语标的模糊音节文字，而是借用腓尼基辅音字母表并通过希腊人明的元音加以改进的字母表。

Within a short time, the Cherokees achieved almost 100 percent literacy in the syllabary, bought a printing press, had Sequoyah's signs cast as type, and began printing books and newspapers.

在很短的时间内，切罗基人就实现了几乎 100% 的音节识字率，购买了一台印刷机，将 Sequoyah 的标志作为字体，并开始印刷书籍和报纸。

Like the signs of Japan's kana and Mycenaean Greece's Linear B syllabaries, Maya phonetic signs were mostly signs for syllables of one consonant plus one vowel (such as ta, te, ti, to, tu).

与日本的假名和迈锡尼的希腊线形B音节的号一样，玛雅语音号大多是一辅音加一元音的音节号（如ta、te、ti、to、tu）。

A striking example from the history of writing is the origin of the syllabary devised in Arkansas around 1820 by a Cherokee Indian named Sequoyah, for writing the Cherokee language.

书写史上的一引人注目的例子是 1820 年左右阿肯色州一位名叫塞阔亚 (Sequoyah) 的切罗基印第安人为书写切罗基语而设计的音节文字。

Surrounded by alphabets he could not understand, he instead independently reinvented a syllabary, unaware that the Minoans of Crete had already invented another syllabary 3,500 years previously.

周围是他无法理解的字母，他反而独立地重新明了一种音节文字，却没有意识到克里特岛的米诺斯人早在 3500 年前就已经明了另一种音节文字。