Schwa (Cyrillic)
(Redirected from
Ә
) | This article needs additional citations for verification. (June 2020) |
| Cyrillic letter schwa | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ꙕ | Ю̂ |  |  | Ꙗ | |||
| Я̈ | Я̂ | Я̨ | Ԙ | Ѥ | Ѧ | Ꙙ | Ѫ |
| Ꙛ | Ѩ | Ꙝ | Ѭ | Ѯ | Ѱ | Ѳ | Ѵ |
| Ѷ | Ꙟ | ||||||
Schwa (Ә ә; italics: Ә ә) is a letter of the
Azeri, 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
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⟩.
In Dungan, it represents the close-mid back unrounded vowel /ɤ/.
In Kurdish it represents the sound /ε~æ/.
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 superscript w: ⟨ʷ⟩.
Related letters and other similar characters
- 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)
Computer codes
| Preview | Ә | ә | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER SCHWA | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SCHWA | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 1240 | U+04D8 | 1241 | U+04D9 |
| UTF-8 | 211 152 | D3 98 | 211 153 | D3 99 |
| Numeric character reference | Ә |
Ә |
ә |
ә |
References
 | This article related to the Cyrillic script is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |