1. Among the Athabaskan languages, no syllabics script is in vigorous use. 2. Phoenician and native Cypriot traits disappeared, together with the old Cypriot syllabic script . 3. In syllabic scripts , such as the Inuktitut syllabary, each sign represents a whole syllable. 4. These forms are present in most syllabics scripts with sounds values that approach their Swampy Cree origins. 5. Various alphabetic writing systems were in use in Iron Age Anatolia to record Anatolian languages and syllabic scripts . 6. The early syllabic script was adopted under Sargon's rule that significant portions of Mesopotamian population became literate. 7. The principle of the syllabic script itself is thought to have been borrowed from the Indian Sanskritic Siddham script. 8. Japanese is normally written in a combination of syllabic scripts ( kana ) which also ultimately derive from Chinese characters. 9. Kober's major discovery was that Linear B was an inflected language, difficult to write in a syllabic script . 10. He began to experiment with creating a more syllabic script that he thought might be less awkward for his students to use.