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Voiced uvular tap and flap

Consonantal sound represented by ⟨ɢ̆⟩ or ⟨ʀ̆⟩ in IPA From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Voiced uvular tap and flap
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The voiced uvular tap or flap is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. There is no dedicated symbol for this sound in the IPA. It can specified by adding a 'short' diacritic to the letter for the uvular plosive, ɢ̆, but normally it is covered by the unmodified letter for the uvular trill, ʀ,[1] since the two have never been reported to contrast.

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The uvular tap or flap is not known to exist as a phoneme in any language.

More commonly, it is said to vary with the much more frequent uvular trill, and is most likely a single-contact trill [ʀ̆] rather than an actual tap or flap [ɢ̆] in these languages.

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Features

Features of the voiced uvular tap or flap:

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Occurrence

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