Meaning of schwa | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An indeterminate central vowel sound as the "a" in "about", represented as /ə/ in IPA.
2. The name of the Latin script letter Ə/ə.

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Examples

“The participle has also, owing to the accent, the lightest possible forms; but here there was no reduplication, and so in class I. the "schwa" took the form e before single mutes or fricatives, and elsewhere o.”

“However, word-final unstressed schwa is deleted even by the speakers from South Albania, though to different degrees and dependant on the speech style[…]”

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