• 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...
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    Portuguese uses a tilde with the vowels ⟨a⟩ and ⟨o⟩ and a cedilla with c. Romanian uses a breve on the letter a (⟨ă⟩) to indicate the sound schwa /ə/, as well...
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  • List of Cyrillic letters (category Articles with short description)
    detail). Letter forms with a combined diacritic which are not considered separate letters in any language (notably vowels with accent marks which are...
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    Ơ (redirect from O with horn)
    the 12 Vietnamese language vowels. It represents the sound [ə], the schwa. As with most special Vietnamese letters, this letter is not well-supported by...
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  • List of Latin-script letters (category Articles with short description)
    (Chantal Enguehard – Université de Nantes) the letter schwa used in Kanuri is encoded in Unicode with U+01DD instead of U+0259, and its uppercase is Ǝ U+018E...
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  • Konkani alphabets (category Pages with plain IPA)
    indicating schwa retention and deletion. With some words that contain /n/ or /m/ consonants separated from succeeding consonants by schwas, the schwa deletion...
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    in "bird" in non-rhotic dialects of English. In Komi, it represents the schwa /ə/, like the ⟨a⟩ in "allow". In Kurdish, it represents the near-close near-back...
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    Lepsius Standard Alphabet (category Pages with plain IPA)
    Phonetic Alphabet, nasal vowels get a tilde (ã). A small circle below a letter is used to mark both the schwa (e̥, also ḁ etc. for other reduced vowels)...
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  • Filipino orthography (category Articles with short description)
    â, é, è, ê, ë, ë́, í, ì, î, ó, ò, ô, ú, ù, û. Historically, the tilde was used with <g> (g̃) in many Philippine languages. It was notably used to shorten...
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  • diaeresis or umlaut, ĕ breve, ẽ (superscript) tilde, plus variants such as ḛ subscript tilde, ɫ superimposed tilde, etc. d̼ seagull, e˞ hook, e̽ over-cross...
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  • Circumflex (redirect from W with circumflex)
    chevron-shaped (◌̂), while the Greek circumflex may be displayed either like a tilde (◌̃) or like an inverted breve (◌̑). For the most commonly encountered uses...
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  • "he/him" and el ("the", masculine). This usage of the acute accent is called tilde diacrítica. In Danish, the acute accent can also be used for emphasis, especially...
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    phonology does not differentiate them from long-vowels 'E' and 'O'). Also, the schwa used in languages like Bengali ([ɔ]) and Assamese ([ɒ]) differs from that...
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  • French orthography (category Pages with French IPA)
    ⟨e⟩ indicates /ɛ/ in positions where a plain ⟨e⟩ would be pronounced /ə/ (schwa). Many verb conjugations contain regular alternations between ⟨è⟩ and ⟨e⟩;...
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    History of the International Phonetic Alphabet (category Pages with plain IPA)
    Circassian [approximately modern ⟨ɕ ʑ⟩]. Nasalized vowels were marked with a tilde: ⟨ã⟩, ⟨ẽ⟩, etc. It was noted that ⟨ə⟩ may be used for "any vowel of obscure...
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    List of Latin-script alphabets (category Articles with short description)
    substitute for ⟨ə⟩ if the latter cannot be used (it was replaced by the schwa one year later because it is the most common letter). These cases should...
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    symbols. As of Unicode version 16.0, there are 292,531 assigned characters with code points, covering 168 modern and historical scripts, as well as multiple...
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    Breve (redirect from E with breve)
    boundaries, as in "por-que ̮en-ton-ces." In Malay language, E with breve ĕ was used for schwa in Za'aba Spelling. Breve ◌̆    Latin: Ă ă Ắ ắ Ằ ằ Ẳ ẳ Ẵ ẵ...
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    Nepali language (category Articles with short description)
    last name पन्त (panta/pant). For any verb form the final schwa is always retained unless the schwa-cancelling halanta is present. हुन्छ (huncha, 'it happens')...
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  • Devanagari transliteration (category Articles with short description)
    cover several Indic scripts, including Burmese and Tibetan. Provisions for schwa deletion in Indo-Aryan languages were also made where applicable, e.g. the...
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    Syriac alphabet (category Pages with plain IPA)
    superscript e (or often nothing at all) to represent an original Aramaic schwa that became lost later on at some point in the development of Syriac. Some...
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  • Silent letter (category Articles with short description)
    become silent at the end and if not compounded with words succeeding them, replace the 'ഉ' vowel by the schwa /ə/. However, it is considered disrespectful...
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    Karay-a language (category Articles with short description)
    no substitute. It will always be used since many Kinaray-a words have a schwa vowel sound. Reid, Lawrence A. (2017). "Revisiting the Position of Philippine...
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    standard heuristics described in Unicode and Glyph Names. AGL and AGLFN, along with related resources, are currently maintained and available at the AGL & AGLFN...
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  • Cyrillic script in Unicode (category Articles with short description)
    U+0303 ◌̃ COMBINING TILDE (in non Slavic languages) U+0304 ◌̄ COMBINING MACRON (in non Slavic languages) U+0306 ◌̆ COMBINING BREVE (with й but also other...
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    Romance languages (category Pages with plain IPA)
    presence by inhibiting elision of a preceding schwa, e.g. le haut "the high" vs. l'eau "the water". Cognate with Latin mē, not ego. This parallels the state...
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    Umlaut (diacritic) (category Pages with plain IPA)
    letter survives now only in Czech. Compare also ⟨ñ⟩ for the digraph nn, with the tilde as a superscript ⟨n⟩. In blackletter handwriting, as used in German...
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  • Universal (Esperantido) (category Articles with short description)
    alphabet is used with IPA values, with five additional IPA letters: ø, ə, ʃ, ʒ, ŋ. The affricates are written ts, dz, tʃ, dʒ. The schwa ⟨ə⟩ is used to break...
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    Breton language (category Articles with French-language sources (fr))
    not all dialects pronounce stressed vowels as long). An emergence of a schwa sound occurs as a result of vowel neutralization in post-tonic position...
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  • slightly prenasalized [ɡ], [ᵗs] slightly affricated [s], and [ᵊ] epenthetic schwa). The asterisk, as in [k*] for the fortis stop of Korean, is the convention...
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