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Key facts
- Writing system
- Cyrillic
- Type
- Alphabetic
- Sound values
- [ æ ], [ ɤ ], [ ə ], [ ɛ ~ a ], [ ◌ʷ ]
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- Image
- Cirila-Ә-majuskla.svg
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- Commons category
- Cyrillic Schwa
- Unicode character
- ә
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Schwa (Ә ә; italics: Ә ә) is a letter of the Cyrillic script, derived from the Latin letter schwa. It is used in Abkhaz, Bashkir, Dungan, Itelmen, Kalmyk, Kazakh, Khanty, Kurdish, Uyghur and Tatar. It was also used in Azeri (still used by Azeri speakers in Dagestan), Karakalpak, and Turkmen before those languages switched to the Latin alphabet. The Azeri and some other Latin-derived alphabets contain a letter of identical appearance (Ə/ə).
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