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What is a schwa?

What is a schwa? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An indeterminate central vowel sound as the "a" in "about", represented as /ə/ in IPA.
  2. The character ə, an upside-down, backwards, lower-case E
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Let's say you're in a language that uses schwa to break up consonant clusters, but nowhere else.
This vowel is sometimes informally referred to as schwu in analogy with schwa.
But her style is often clumsy, particularly when she discusses generalities, and I was worried by apparently unjustified discrepancies in transcription of schwa.
So there will be words that always always have schwa in them, just exactly where you'd predict based on the phonotactics.
Although not represented in the conventional alphabet, schwa is the commonest vowel sound in English.
Note that the declensional schwa appearing under certain conditions on prenominal adjectives in Dutch is not a bona fide adjectivity marker.

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