Voiced uvular fricative - Features

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, 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 upt ...

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In Western Europe, a voiced uvular trill or fricative pronunciation of orthographic r spread from northern French to several dialects and registers 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 [eʁ̞ə] 'honor'; while in Danish the r is a pharyngeal ...

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