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Season 254 - Day 10 of 14

Linguistics

Represented in the International Phonetic Alphabet by the inverted letter ⟨ə⟩, this mid-central vowel is the most common speech sound in English and typically occurs in unstressed syllables, such as the first vowel in about or the final vowel in sofa.
By which German-derived linguistic term is this sound known?

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