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reduced vowel

noun reduced vowels

  1. a vowel that occurs only, or at least disproportionately often, in unstressed syllables in a given language; usually one that is intermediate in both height and frontness/backness The schwa is a typical reduced vowel, though it can also be a full vowel in some languages.

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DeutschReduktionsvokal, Murmelvokal

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@misc{reduced_vowel_2026,
  title = {reduced vowel},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/reduced%20vowel},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}