Ə

Letter of the Latin alphabet

EntityLatin-script letter IPA symbol lowercase letterQ28844

Also known as schwa

Instance of: Latin-script letter
, IPA symbol
, lowercase letter
Part of: International Phonetic Alphabet
, Azerbaijani Latin alphabet
, Africa Alphabet
+2 more

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Ə, or ə, is an additional letter of the Latin alphabet. It is also called schwa, from another name for the mid central vowel, the sound represented by minuscule ə in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).

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Unicode character: Ə applies to part: uppercase · unicode code point: 018F · statement is subject of: Ə
ə applies to part: lowercase · unicode code point: 0259 · statement is subject of: ə
Based on: E/e
Different from: Ә
Has characteristic: lowercase
Used by: Halkomelem
Karay-a statement supported by: Vicente Pangantihon
Script: Latin script

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1 identifiers linking Ə across the web's reference databases

Freebase ID/m/06p2cr

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