inherent vowel

English

Etymology

inherent +‎ vowel

Noun

inherent vowel (plural inherent vowels)

  1. (linguistics) In an abugida, the vowel sound (often a schwa in Brahmic scripts) appended by default to a consonant symbol lacking a vowel diacritic.
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