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Also known as Schwa

Cyrillic letter

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Writing system
Cyrillic
Type
Alphabetic
Sound values
[ æ ], [ ɤ ], [ ə ], [ ɛ ~ a ], [ ◌ʷ ]

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Cirila-Ә-majuskla.svg
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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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