| Uvular Trill |
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The uvular trill 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 , a small capital R . The equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is R\. This consonant is one of several collectively called Guttural R . FEATURES Features of the uvular trill:
WHERE FOUND The uvular trill is rare outside Europe. It occurs in some varieties of Abkhaz and in Ashkenazi c Hebrew . In Lakhota the uvular trill is an allophone of the Voiced Uvular Fricative , used in front of /i/. Within Europe it seems to have originated in French , from where it spread to modern Standard German , most German dialects, some Dutch dialects, some northern Italian dialects, and the southern dialects of Swedish . In part of this area it has since acquired a Uvular Fricative Allophone , which has taken over completely in Standard Dutch and Danish . It also occurs among speakers of other languages, when individuals have Speech Impediment s that make pronouncing the preferred Alveolar Trill difficult or impossible (although this is often corrected with minor surgery). Lenin is probably the most famous Russian to use uvular trills. Few languages contrast more than one trill. However, older speakers of eastern dialects of Occitan contrast uvular and alveolar trills, as for example in ''cured'' and ''oak''. SEE ALSO |
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