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Complete Definition of "schwa"

see|Schwa

English

Pronunciation
AHD|shwä, IPA|/�w��/, SAMPA|/SwA:/
audio|en-us-schwa.ogg|Audio (US)

Noun
en-noun

  1. An indeterminate central vowel sound as the "a" in "about" or the "e" in "the", represented as � in IPA and @ in SAMPA and X-SAMPA.
  2. The letter �, an upside-down lower-case E, used to represent such a sound.

Translations

Dutch: sjwa, doffe e
French: e muet
German: Schwa n
mid
Japanese: ���� (shuw�)
Korean: �� (syuwa)
Polish: szwa f

es:schwa
fr:schwa
vi:schwa
tr:schwa

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