In syllabic scripts, such as the Inuktitut syllabary, each sign represents a whole syllable. Most are written with the "hiragana" syllabary, but "katakana" and "romaji" are also occasionally used. In a syllabary, graphemes represent syllables or moras. He first experimented with logograms, before developing his system into a syllabary. This makes the script alphabetic for syllables not directly covered by the syllabary. Chinese characters do not constitute an alphabet or a compact syllabary. Written Chinese is not based on an alphabet or a compact syllabary. More remote possibilities are comparison with the Phoenician abjad or the Byblos syllabary. Byblos syllabary and the South Arabian alphabet (c. 1200 BC). Other scripts combine attributes of alphabet and syllabary. In a syllabary, each symbol correlates to a syllable or mora. There are about 630 syllables in the Cantonese syllabary. Final consonants in the Cypriot syllabary are marked by a final, silent e. A "pure" syllabary based on English would require a separate glyph for every possible syllable. They translated the Bible into Cherokee syllabary.