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| Voiced uvular tap or flap | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ɢ̆ | |||
| ʀ̆ | |||
| IPA Number | 112 505 | ||
| Audio sample | |||
| Encoding | |||
| Entity (decimal) | ɢ̆ | ||
| Unicode (hex) | U+0262 U+0306 | ||
| |||
| Voiced uvular tapped fricative | |
|---|---|
| ɢ̞̆ | |
| ʁ̮ |
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.
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.