Schwa syncope is the deletion of schwa. Vowels are never reduced in tone (e.g. to schwa sounds) when unstressed. In German orthography, word-final is not silent but is instead an unstressed schwa. The voiced labiovelar approximant is a realization of between vowels other than the schwa. In most dialects of Russian unstressed and reduce to either or schwa. Long and short vowels (but not schwa) contrast. This vowel is sometimes informally referred to as schwu in analogy with "schwa". This vowel is sometimes informally referred to as schwi in analogy with "schwa". In Devanagari, consonant letters by default come with an inherent schwa. Gemination also occurs in case of schwa elision. Syncopation of phonemic middle schwa can further occur to give . The r-colored schwa can be analyzed phonemically as . This prefix is pronounced as a schwa . The schwa is rarely used in Korean phonology. When it is vocalised, most scholars pronounce it as a schwa.