Schwa

//ʃwɑ//

"Schwa" in a Sentence (3 examples)

A schwa represents a neutral vowel.

The participle has also, owing to the accent, the lightest possible forms; but here there was no reduplication, and so in class I. the "schwa" took the form e before single mutes or fricatives, and elsewhere o.

However, word-final unstressed schwa is deleted even by the speakers from South Albania, though to different degrees and dependant on the speech style[…]

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