The mid central vowel (also known as schwa) is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet...

Schwa (Ә ә; italics: Ә ә) is a letter of the Cyrillic script, derived from the Latin letter schwa. It is currently used in Abkhaz, Bashkir, Dungan, Itelmen...

Ə, or ə, also called schwa, is an additional letter of the Latin alphabet. In the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), minuscule ə is used to represent...

In phonetics, schwa is the mid central vowel (transcribed [ə]) or similar neutral vowel. Schwa may also refer to: Schwa (Cyrillic), a letter of some Cyrillic-based...

Schwa is the underground conceptual artwork of Bill Barker (born 1957). Barker draws deceptively simple black and white stick figures and oblong alien...

Schwa with tilde (Ә̃ ә̃; italics: Ә̃ ә̃) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Schwa with tilde is used only in the alphabet of the Khinalug language where...

/ / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Schwa deletion, or schwa syncope, is a phenomenon that sometimes occurs in Assamese, Hindi...

Schwa with diaeresis (Ӛ ӛ; italics: Ӛ ӛ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It is currently unique to the Khanty language. Ӛ is romanized with a Latin...

Schwa is an upscale restaurant run by chef-owner Michael Carlson and chef de cuisine Papi Chulo. It is located on Ashland Avenue in Wicker Park, Chicago...

Schwa with acute (Ә́ ә́; italics: Ә́ ә́) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Schwa with acute is sometimes used in the Tatar language, where it represents...

The Schwa Was Here is a young adult novel by Neal Shusterman, published by Dutton Penguin in 2004. It is about an eighth-grader's friendship with another...

Sound sample regular and r-colored schwa Problems playing this file? See media help. An r-colored or rhotic vowel (also called a retroflex vowel, vocalic...

Pedro Lucas Schwaizer (born 5 September 1998) is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for Slovenian club Olimpija Ljubljana as a forward. Born...

when written in Latin script. In Acehnese, ë is used to represent /ə/ (schwa), a mid central vowel. In Afrikaans, the trema (Afrikaans: deelteken, [ˈdɪəl...

until the theory, such as the independent schwas (as in *pəter- 'father'). Also, the hypothesis that PIE schwa *ə was a consonant, not a vowel, provides...

reduction – many such syllables are pronounced with a centralized vowel (schwa) or with certain other vowels that are described as being "reduced" (or...

word beginning with a vowel; elision, in which certain instances of /ə/ (schwa) are elided (such as when final before an initial vowel); enchaînement (resyllabification)...

existential quantifier used in logic, or with U+0259 ə LATIN SMALL LETTER SCHWA (uppercase Ə), which is used as a phonetic symbol and as a letter in Latin-based...

the continuous tense with the aim of conforming to the schwa deletion rule. (According to the schwa deletion rule in Indo-Aryan languages, करत आसा will be...

Final schwas may or may not be preserved in speech. The following rules can be followed to figure out whether or not Nepali words retain the final schwa: Schwa...

described as full or strong. The prototypical reduced vowel in English is schwa. In Australian English, that is the only reduced vowel, though other dialects...

in Standard Hindi is a schwa. In certain contexts, such as at the end of words, there is no vowel, a phenomenon called the schwa syncope. Other vowels...

in Muslim) or GOOSE (as in Buddha). The STRUT–COMMA merger or the STRUT–schwa merger is a merger of /ʌ/ with /ə/ that occurs in Welsh English, some higher-prestige...

speakers of Newfoundland English. Schwa syncope is the deletion of schwa. English has the tendency to delete schwa when it appears in a mid-word syllable...

avoid schwa deletion in pronunciation; most other languages using Devanagari show schwa deletion in pronunciation despite the presence of schwa in the...

"bond" > bā̃dh Loss of unaccented or unstressed short vowels (reflected in schwa deletion): susthira "firm" > sutthira > suthrā Collapsing of adjacent vowels...

Achatz than anyone else. In late 2005 Carlson opened his first restaurant – Schwa – in Chicago. He and the restaurant have received critical acclaim. Carlson...

front vowels: the short-i sound (as in kit) has centralised towards the schwa sound (the a in comma and about); the short-e sound (as in dress) has moved...

The acceptance of the schwa in final closed syllables, as in the word filem ('film'), also linked to the acceptance of ⟨e⟩ for schwa at the end of the word...

2005 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for The Schwa Was Here 2008 California Young Reader Medal for The Schwa Was Here 2015 National Book Award for Young...