Where can I find linguistic symbols such as "schwa" ?

[zodiaclady]

I need to insert linguistic symbols such as "schwa" (upside-down e) into a
Word document but cannot find them in any of the character sets. Any ideas?

 

[Jay Freedman]

I need to insert linguistic symbols such as "schwa" (upside-down e) into a
Word document but cannot find them in any of the character sets. Any ideas?

They're in many of the Unicode fonts, such as Times New Roman, Arial,
Lucida Sans Unicode, Palatino, and Tahoma.

Open the Insert > Symbol dialog, set the font to the desired one, and
open the Subset dropdown. If you see "IPA Extensions", select that.
The schwa is character 0259, and the others follow that. Some fonts
have more IPA characters than others; Lucida Sans Unicode has far more
than most.

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

You'll likely have to buy (download, if you can find one) a specialized
font. If you have the latest version of WordPerfect, the schwa is in the WP
Phonetic set.

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

I clicked Send before I meant to. A quick Google search on phonetic font
turned up the following link, which appears to have something that might
work, assuming that Jay's findings don't adequate suit your needs:

http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&cat_id=FontDownloads