schwa deletion

English edit

Etymology edit

schwa +‎ deletion

Noun edit

schwa deletion (uncountable)

(linguistics) The phenomenon of the dropping of the orthographic inherent vowel in speech, in Indo-Aryan languages that use abugidas.
Synonym: schwa dropping

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