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Also known as schwa

letter of the Latin alphabet

Key facts

Writing system
Latin script
Type
alphabetic
Sound values
[ æ ] [ ə ] [ ɨ ]
In unicode
U+018F , U+0259

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

𐤄Ε ε ϵ𐌄E eƏ ə

Time period~1922 to 1939, 1992 to present Descendants • Ә Other Writing directionLeft-to-right This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ə” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.