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or is a letter derived from the Latin alphabet. Both glyphs of the majuscule and minuscule forms of this letter are based on the rotated form of a minuscule e; a similar letter with identical minuscule is used in the Pan-Nigerian Alphabet and some alphabets based on the African reference alphabet, but has the capital form majuscule , based on a horizontally flipped majuscule E.
The letter was used in the Uniform Turkic Alphabet, for example, in Janalif for the Tatar language in the 1920s-1930s.
In the Latin Azerbaijani and Chechen alphabets, represents the near-open front unrounded vowel, . In the International Phonetic Alphabet, minuscule is used to represent the mid central vowel (see schwa).
In the Latin transliteration of Avestan, the corresponding long vowel is written as schwa-macron, .
In Windows, the uppercase "Ə" is written by holding the "Alt" key and pressing 399 on the number pad at the right side of the keyboard, then releasing "Alt". The lowercase "ə" can be written using the number 601 instead. If using a Compose key in Linux, it is written by pressing "Compose" and 'e' twice.
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