Schwa - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org › wiki › SchwaIn linguistics, specifically phonetics and phonology, schwa is a vowel sound denoted by the IPA symbol ə , placed in the central position of the vowel chart. In English and some other languages, it represents the mid central vowel sound, produced when the lips, tongue, and jaw are completely relaxed, such as the vowel sound of the a in the English word about. In English, some long-established phonetic transcription systems assert that the mid central vowel as an unstressed vowel and transcrib
Schwa - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SchwaThe term schwa was introduced by German linguists in the 19th century from the Hebrew shva (שְׁוָא IPA: [ʃva], classical pronunciation: shəwāʼ [ʃəˑwɒːʔ] ), the name of the niqqud sign used to indicate the phoneme. It was first used in English texts in the early 1890s. The symbol ⟨ə⟩ was used first by Johann Andreas Schmeller for the reduced vowel at the end of the German language term Gabe. Alexander John Ellis, in his Palaeotype alphabet, used it for the simila…