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𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮ᴀ vowel phoneme /ə/
The 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮ᴀ vowel phoneme /ə/ is an English vowel phoneme referring to the sounds used by various English speakers in the second vowel of its keyword comma.[1]
The words in the 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮ᴀ lexical set are pronounced in this manner.
This is generally pronounced as a schwa sound, as a result of vowel reduction. However, there are some variations on this; African accents often tend towards [æ] and some East Midlands accents towards [ɒ].
In non-rhotic accents of English, this undergoes a phonological merger with the 𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘵ᴇʀ vowel phoneme, sometimes called the 𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘥ᴀ—𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘥ᴇʀ merger, such that words in the 𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘵ᴇʀ lexical set are also pronounced with this sound when they have no linking /r/.