schwa deletion

English

Etymology

schwa +‎ deletion

Noun

schwa deletion (uncountable)

  1. (linguistics) The phenomenon of the dropping of the orthographic inherent vowel in speech, in Indo-Aryan languages that use abugidas.
    Synonym: schwa dropping
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