schwa

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schwa

Summary

schwa ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • schwa's audio is recorded as Mid-central vowel.ogg[2].
  • schwa's subclass of is recorded as mid vowel[3].
  • schwa's subclass of is recorded as central vowel[4].
  • schwa's Commons category is recorded as Schwa[5].
  • schwa's said to be the same as is recorded as mid-central unrounded vowel[6].
  • schwa's catalog code is recorded as 322[7].
  • schwa's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0q57r[8].
  • schwa's IPA transcription is recorded as ə[9].
  • schwa's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0151083[10].
  • schwa's depicted by is recorded as Ə[11].
  • schwa's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/schwa-indogermanicum[12].
  • schwa's different from is recorded as Shva[13].
  • schwa's X-SAMPA code is recorded as @[14].
  • schwa's Kirshenbaum code is recorded as @[15].
  • schwa's IPA Braille is recorded as ⠢[16].
  • schwa's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as schwa[17].
  • schwa's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2780580791[18].
  • schwa's J-GLOBAL ID is recorded as 201606007549495717[19].
  • schwa's J-GLOBAL ID is recorded as 201606008864182812[20].
  • schwa's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 07128731-n[21].
  • schwa's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2780580791[22].
  • schwa's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as vocal-neutra-0[23].

Why It Matters

schwa ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7 views/month).[1] schwa has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] schwa is known by 44 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
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  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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