Schwa (Cyrillic)

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).

Usage

In many Turkic languages such as Azeri, Bashkir, Kazakh, Uyghur and Tatar, as well as the Kalmyk and Khinalug languages, it represents the near-open front unrounded vowel Script error: No such module "IPA"., like the pronunciation of Template:Angbr in "cat". It is often transliterated as Template:Angbr.

In Dungan, it represents the close-mid back unrounded vowel Script error: No such module "IPA"..

In Kurdish, it represents the sound Script error: No such module "IPA"..

In Abkhaz, it is a modifier letter, which represents labialization of the preceding consonant Script error: No such module "IPA".. Digraphs with Template:Angbr are treated as letters and given separate positions in the Abkhaz alphabet. It is transliterated into Latin as a superscript w: Template:Angbr.

In 2013, Khanty alphabets represents it as the reduced mid central vowel Script error: No such module "IPA"..^[1]

Ӛ ӛ: Cyrillic Schwa with diaeresis
Ä ä: Latin letter A with diaeresis
Ӓ ӓ: Cyrillic letter A with diaeresis
Æ æ: Ligature Æ, an Icelandic, Danish and Norwegian letter.
Ӕ ӕ: Cyrillic letter Æ
Ə ə: Latin schwa, used to transliterate Azerbaijani's Cyrillic schwa and 1927—1940 Turkmen's schwa. (Now ä for a schwa in Cyrillic)

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