ə

Etymology

Coined by German philologist Johann Andreas Schmeller in 1821 for his grammar of Bavarian.^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA:

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Symbol

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Mid-central unrounded vowel

Wikipedia

ə

1. (IPA) a reduced mid-central vowel, undefined for rounding.
2. (superscript ⟨ᵊ⟩, IPA) [ə]-coloring or a weak, fleeting, epenthetic or echo [ə].
3. (UPA) a reduced e vowel.
4. (superscript ⟨ᵊ⟩, UPA) an extremely short or fleeting ə.

See also

• With hook: ɚ
• With ogonek: ə̨
• E
• Ǝ (turned E), ǝ
• Ә (Cyrillic schwa)
• ع (ain)
• Wikipedia article on Schwa

References

Symbol

ə

1. (lexicography) schwa, e.g. \sō′fə\ for sofa.

   (superscript ⟨ᵊ⟩) optional schwa, e.g. \băt′ᵊl\ for battle.

   (superscript ⟨ᵊ⟩) French final schwa, as in \bᴀstôn′yᵊ\ for Bastogne.

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /æ/

• Audio:

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Letter

ə lower case (upper case Ə)

1. The seventh letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ə]

Letter

ə (no case)

1. A letter of the Comox alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ə/

Letter

ə (upper case Ə)

1. A letter of the Fe'fe' alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Alternative forms

• (Stó꞉lō) e
• (Cowichan) u

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ə/

Letter

ə (no case)

1. (Musqueam) A letter of the Halkomelem alphabet.

Alternative forms

• ⟨a̱⟩ in Uʼmista orthography (standard Kwakʼwala)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ə/

Letter

ə (upper case Ə)

1. (Liqʼwala dialect) A letter of the Kwak'wala alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ə/

Letter

ə

1. The eleventh letter of the Lushootseed alphabet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ə/

Letter

ə (upper case Ə)

1. The letter of the Maskelynes alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ə/

Letter

ə (upper case Ə)

1. A letter of the Okanagan alphabet. ⟨ə́⟩ counts as a distinct letter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ə]

Letter

ə (upper case Ə)

1. A letter of the Osage Latin alphabet. Osage script 𐓛.

Etymology

Probably from IPA transcription ə or even before from German transcriptions.

Pronunciation

• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /ə́/, /ə̀/
• (symbol name): IPA^(key): /ə̀ː/, IPA^(key): /pɔʋɡláːsnik/ (polglasnik)
• Rhymes: -ə, -aːsnik

Symbol

ə

1. (tonal SNPT) Phonetic transcription of sounds [ə́, ə̀].

See also

• ē
• è
• e
• ê
• ḙ
• é
• é

References

• Toporišič, Jože (2000) Slovenska slovnica / Jože Toporišič. - 4. prenovljena in razširjena izd. (in Slovene), Maribor: Obzorja, →ISBN

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /æ/

Letter

ə (upper case Ə)

1. A letter of the Uyghur New Script of China

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ə/

Letter

ə (upper case Ə)

1. A letter of the Wakhi alphabet, written in the Latin script.