Schwa deletion in Indo-Aryan languages
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Schwa deletion in Indo-Aryan languages
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Schwa deletion, or schwa syncope, is a phenomenon that sometimes occurs in Assamese, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Kashmiri, Punjabi, Gujarati, and several other Indo-Aryan languages with schwas that are implicit in their written scripts. Languages like Marathi and Maithili with increased influence from other languages through coming into contact with them—also show a similar phenomenon. Some schwas are obligatorily deleted in pronunciation even if the script suggests otherwise. Here, schwa refers to an
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Phonetic process
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwa_deletion_in_Indo-Aryan_languages
date created:
2011-01-30T18:03:22Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T22:05:30Z
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