Schwa with tilde (Ә̃ ә̃; italics:
''Ә̃ ә̃'') is a letter of the
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script ( ) is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic languages, Slavic, Turkic languages, Turkic, Mongolic languages, Mongolic, Uralic languages, Uralic, C ...
.
Schwa with tilde is used only in the alphabet of the
Khinalug language
Khinalug (also spelled Khinalig, Khinalugi, Xinalug(h), Xinaliq or Khinalugh) is a Northeast Caucasian languages, Northeast Caucasian language spoken by about 3,000 people in the villages of Khinalug and Gülüstan, Quba in the mountains of Quba ...
where it represents the
nasalized
In phonetics, nasalization (or nasalisation in British English) is the production of a sound while the velum is lowered, so that some air escapes through the nose during the production of the sound by the mouth. An archetypal nasal sound is .
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near-open front unrounded vowel
The near-open front unrounded vowel, or near-low front unrounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , a lowercase of the ligature. Both the symbol and the sound ar ...
/æ̃/.
[Khinalug (каьтш мицI / kätš micʼ)]
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Similar and related characters
* Ə: Latin letter schwa, used in Azerbaijani
* Ә: Cyrillic letter schwa
See also
*Cyrillic characters in Unicode
As of Unicode version , Cyrillic script is encoded across several blocks:
* CyrillicU+0400–U+04FF 256 characters
* Cyrillic SupplementU+0500–U+052F 48 characters
* Cyrillic Extended-AU+2DE0–U+2DFF 32 characters
* Cyrillic Extended-BU+A64 ...
References
[Khinalug (каьтш мицI / kätš micʼ)]
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Cyrillic letters with diacritics
Letters with tilde
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