Talk:Ə

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Alt codes

The article's suggested alt codes of ALT 399 and ALT 601 give Å and Y for me. Anyone else find the same thing? Mglovesfun (talk) 11:22, 22 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah. Gupdoo3 (talk) 17:02, 9 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Did you try a leading zero, i.e. Alt+0 3 9 9 and Alt+0 6 0 1? — Christoph Päper 10:04, 1 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

proposed split

So let's discuss it. How would you divide the content between Ə and Ǝ? —Tamfang (talk) 15:45, 18 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That is a great question. I would relocate the capitalized schwa content to either Schwa or Mid central vowel. As for the “Ǝ”, I could only think of it as a redirect for the Eminem video stylized as such.—Bde1982 17:02, 2 May 2015 (UTC)

Superscript ᵊ

ᵊ redirects here, but its use (IPA: mid-central vowel release) is not covered in the prose and it’s also not mentioned in the schwa article. — Christoph Päper 09:53, 1 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I have now added some information on the superscript variant. Alas, the subscript ₔ redirects to Unicode subscripts and superscripts instead. How should we deal with this? — Christoph Päper 10:51, 1 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

MacOS

Əə — yep, the method I described still works, provided (as I said) that the “Extended” keymap is selected. —Tamfang (talk) 01:58, 16 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"Ǝ́" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Ǝ́ has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 August 23 § Ǝ́ until a consensus is reached. 1234qwer 1234qwer 4 22:27, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Undue weight: paragraph on gender neutrality in Italian

The anecdote about the hypothetical use of Ə for gender neutrality in Italian is certainly receiving too much attention on a page that talks about a graphic sign at an international level. The user who added the paragraph on 31 March 2022 was trying to present the proposal as a real use in Italian. But that's not true. It is still the fabrication by a small group of activists who propose to abolish morphology in the Italian language. Almost no one is following that proposal in Italy (except as a provocation), and nominal morphology is normally used in speech and writing. That group is trying to do self-promotion on Wikipedia. From the page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view: "While it is important to account for all significant viewpoints on any topic, Wikipedia policy does not state or imply that every minority view, fringe theory, or extraordinary claim needs to be presented along with commonly accepted mainstream scholarship as if they were of equal validity". Linguista Italiana (talk) 21:36, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]