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 See also Syllable (disambiguation) Semi-syllable (disambiguation)