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The voiced uvular fricative is a type of Consonant al sound, used in some Spoken Language s. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is R. This consonant is one of several collectively called Guttural R when found in European languages. Because the IPA symbol stands for both the uvular fricative and the uvular Approximant , the fricative nature of this sound may be specified by adding the Uptack to the letter, . (The approximant can be specified by adding the Downtack , .) FEATURES Features of the voiced uvular fricative:
OCCURS IN In Western Europe, a voiced uvular trill or fricative pronunciation of orthographic ''r'' spread from northern French to several dialects and Register s of German , Dutch , Norwegian , Danish , Swedish , and Hebrew . However, not all of these are either uvular or fricative today. In Standard German, ''r'' tends to be a uvular fricative or trill initially, but an Uvular Approximant between vowels, as in ''Ehre'' 'honour'; while in Danish the ''r'' is a Pharyngeal Approximant in all but the most conservative speech. A voiced uvular fricative is also found in many varieties of European Portuguese for orthographic ''rr'' or initial ''r,'' as in the name of the city Rio De Janeiro . It is used in some very rare dialects of Bengali as a version of the /r/ phoneme which occurs before Velar Consonant s. Armenian has a specific letter for this sound: 'Ր'. Some phonemic transcriptions use the /r/ symbol instead of // for the 'r' sound for ease of typesetting. SEE ALSO |
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