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Randall Munroe

@xkcd.com

15 Mar 2024

Schwa xkcd.com/2907

Nick † Wright

@nickwrightdata.ntw.app

15 Mar 2024

Is the Schwa the most common vowel sound outside of English? If so, we've found ourselves the "sound of human". Cow goes Moo Dog goes Bark Human goes Uh

Nick † Wright

@nickwrightdata.ntw.app

EDIT: Not the most present in Spanish and doesn't exist in Japanese, so here's my update to "Human goes Uh": "American goes Uh". Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk

15/3/24, 10:55 pm3 reposts63 likes

Call me Umma - Coca and Rumma

@ummagummibear.bsky.social

21 Apr 2024

In my linguistic experience (English , Spanish, French, Japanese, Norwegian, Mandarin), the languages that use schwa besides English are French (unaccented E) and Mandarin, which uses it a lot.