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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
The phenomenon of the dropping of the orthographic inherent vowel in speech, in Indo-Aryan languages that use abugidas.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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Synonyms: schwa dropping
Antonyms: none provided
History
From schwa + deletion.
