Re: Schwa vowel, which letter?

On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Matt Pearson wrote:

> Yes, but I don't think Herman was talking about the Sequoyah
> syllabary.  It's actually the standard Latin transcription of
> Cherokee which uses "v" to represent a vowel - viz. a back-central
> nasalised vowel, represented in IPA by an upside-down "v" with a
> tilde over it.
Is this the same sound as French "un"?

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