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| Writing system | Cyrillic |
| Type | Alphabetic |
| Sound values | [æ] [ɤ] [ə] [ɛ~a] [◌ʷ] |
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Schwa (Ә ә; italics:Ә ә) is a letter of theCyrillic script, derived from theLatin letter schwa. It is used inAbkhaz,Bashkir,Dungan,Itelmen,Kalmyk,Kazakh,Khanty,Kurdish,Uyghur andTatar. It was also used inAzeri (still used by Azeri speakers in Dagestan),Karakalpak, andTurkmen before those languages switched to theLatin alphabet. The Azeri and some other Latin-derived alphabets contain a letter of identical appearance (Ə/ə).
In manyTurkic languages such asAzeri,Bashkir,Kazakh,Uyghur andTatar, as well as theKalmyk andKhinalug languages, it represents thenear-open front unrounded vowel/æ/, like the pronunciation of⟨a⟩ in "cat". It is often transliterated as⟨ä⟩.
InDungan, it represents theclose-mid back unrounded vowel/ɤ/.
InKurdish, it represents the sound/ε~æ/.
InAbkhaz, it is a modifier letter, which representslabialization of the preceding consonant/ʷ/.Digraphs with⟨ә⟩ are treated as letters and given separate positions in theAbkhaz alphabet. It istransliterated into Latin as a superscript w:⟨ʷ⟩.
In 2013,Khanty alphabets represents it as thereducedmid central vowel/ə/.[1]
| Preview | Ә | ә | ||
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| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SCHWA | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SCHWA | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 1240 | U+04D8 | 1241 | U+04D9 |
| UTF-8 | 211 152 | D3 98 | 211 153 | D3 99 |
| Numeric character reference | Ә | Ә | ә | ә |
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