Voiced uvular fricative
Consonantal sound represented by ⟨ʁ⟩ in IPA / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The voiced uvular fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ʁ⟩, an inverted small uppercase letter ⟨ʀ⟩, or in broad transcription ⟨r⟩ if rhotic. This consonant is one of the several collectively called guttural R when found in European languages.
Voiced uvular fricative | |||
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ʁ | |||
IPA Number | 143 | ||
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Entity (decimal) | ʁ | ||
Unicode (hex) | U+0281 | ||
X-SAMPA | R | ||
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Voiced uvular approximant | |||
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ʁ̞ | |||
IPA Number | 144 | ||
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X-SAMPA | R_o | ||
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The voiced uvular approximant is also found interchangeably with the fricative, and may also be transcribed as ⟨ʁ⟩. Because the IPA symbol stands for the uvular fricative, the approximant may be specified by adding the downtack: ⟨ʁ̞⟩, though some writings[1] use a superscript ⟨ʶ⟩, which is not an official IPA practice.
For a voiced pre-uvular fricative (also called post-velar), see voiced velar fricative.