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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