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ə

See also: ǝ [U+01DD LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED E], Ǝ [U+018E LATIN CAPITAL LETTER REVERSED E], ә [U+04D9 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SCHWA], Ә [U+04D8 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SCHWA], Ə [U+018F LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SCHWA], and Appendix:Variations of "e"

ə U+0259, ə
LATIN SMALL LETTER SCHWA
← ɘ
[U+0258] 		IPA Extensions ɚ →
[U+025A]
ᵊ U+1D4A, ᵊ
MODIFIER LETTER SMALL SCHWA
← ᵉ
[U+1D49] 		Phonetic Extensions ᵋ →
[U+1D4B]

Translingual

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Etymology

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

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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].

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The IPA provides two letters for reduced vowels: mid ⟨ə⟩ and low (open) ⟨ɐ⟩. These are not defined for rounding. For languages such as English, French and Russian that have additional or just different reduced vowels, some sources use the non-IPA letters ⟨ᵿ⟩ and ⟨ᵻ⟩ for rounded and unrounded high (close) reduced vowels, or redefine IPA ⟨ɵ⟩ as a rounded reduced mid vowel.

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References

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  1. ^ Asher Laufer (2019) “The origin of the IPA schwa”, in Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain and Paul Warren, editors, Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences‎[1], →ISBN, page 1910

English

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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.

Azerbaijani

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ə lower case (upper case Ə)

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

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Fe'fe'

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ə (upper case Ə)

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

Halkomelem

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ə (upper case Ə)

  1. A letter of the Halkomelem alphabet.

Kwak'wala

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Alternative forms

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  • ⟨a̱⟩ in Uʼmista orthography (standard Kwakʼwala)

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ə (upper case Ə)

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

Lushootseed

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ə

  1. The eleventh letter of the Lushootseed alphabet.

Maskelynes

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ə (upper case Ə)

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

Okanagan

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ə (upper case Ə)

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

Osage

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ə (upper case Ə)

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

Slovene

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Etymology

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

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ə

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

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Symbol is sometimes used as a letter to denote pitch and pronunciation in a word, but that is mostly limited to foreign or specialized dictionaries.

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References

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

Uyghur

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IPA(key): /æ/

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ə (upper case Ə)

  1. A letter of the Uyghur New Script of China

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Wakhi

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ə (upper case Ə)

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