Schwa (Cyrillic)

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 /æ/, like the pronunciation of a in "cat". It is often transliterated as ä; however, in Kazakh, it was transliterated as Á.

In Dungan, it represents the close-mid back unrounded vowel /ɤ/.

In Kurdish it represents the schwa /ə/ or the sound /ε~a/.

In Abkhaz, it is a modifier letter, which represents labialization of the preceding consonant /ʷ/. Digraphs with ә are treated as letters and given separate positions in the Abkhaz alphabet. It is transliterated into Latin as a high ring ˚.

Computing codes

CharacterӘә
Unicode nameCYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SCHWACYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SCHWA
Encodingsdecimalhexdecimalhex
Unicode1240U+04D81241U+04D9
UTF-8211 152D3 98211 153D3 99
Numeric character referenceӘӘәә

See also

References

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