Avoiced alveolar tap orflap is a type ofconsonantal sound, used in some spokenlanguages. The symbol in theInternational Phonetic Alphabet that represents adental,alveolar, orpostalveolartap or flap is ⟨ɾ⟩.
The termstap andflap are often used interchangeably.Peter Ladefoged proposed the distinction that a tap strikes its point of contact directly, as a very brief stop, and a flap strikes the point of contact tangentially: "Flaps are most typically made by retracting the tongue tip behind the alveolar ridge and moving it forward so that it strikes the ridge in passing."[1] That distinction between the alveolar tap and flap could be written in non-standard IPA with the tap as ⟨ɾ⟩ and the flap as ⟨ɽ⟩, the retroflex letter being used for the one that starts with the tongue tip curled back behind the alveolar ridge,[citation needed] though it could be written less ambiguously with the Americanist letter ⟨ᴅ⟩ (or IPA ⟨d̮⟩) for the tap and standard IPA ⟨ɾ⟩ for the flap. The distinction is noticeable in the speech of some American English speakers in distinguishing the words "potty" (tap) and "party" (flap).[citation needed]
For linguists who do not make the distinction, alveolars and dentals are typically calledtaps and other articulationsflaps. No language contrasts a tap and a flap at the same place of articulation.
As a phoneme, the sound is analyzed as anrhotic consonant. In languages for which the segment is present but not phonemic, it is often an allophone of either analveolar stop ([t],[d], or both) or arhotic consonant.
If an alveolar flap is the only rhotic consonant in the language, it may be transcribed with ⟨r⟩ in broad transcription, despite that symbol technically representing a trill.
Avoiced alveolar tapped fricative reported from some languages is actually a very briefvoiced alveolar non-sibilant fricative.
| Voiced alveolar tap or flap | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ɾ | |||
| IPA number | 124 | ||
| Audio sample | |||
| Encoding | |||
| Entity(decimal) | ɾ | ||
| Unicode(hex) | U+027E | ||
| X-SAMPA | 4 | ||
| Braille | |||
| |||
| Voiced postalveolar flap | |
|---|---|
| ɾ̠ |
Features of a voiced alveolar tap or flap:
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albanian | Standard | Shqipëri | [ʃc͡ɕipəˈɾi] | 'Albania' | Contrasts with/r/ in all positions. |
| Arabic | Egyptian[2] | رجل | [ˈɾeɡɫ̩] | 'leg' | SeeEgyptian Arabic phonology. |
| Lebanese | إجر | [ˈʔəʒəɾ] | 'wages' | ||
| Moroccan | رما /rma | [ɾma] | 'he threw' | ||
| South Iraqi | أريد | [ˈaɾiːd] | 'I want' | ||
| Aragonese | aragonés | [äɾäɣ̞o̞ˈne̞s] | 'Aragonese' | Contrasts with/r/. | |
| Armenian | Eastern[3] | րոպե | [ɾo̞pɛ̝́]ⓘ | 'minute' | Contrasts with/r/ in all positions. |
| Assyrian | ܪܫܐ /rìsha | [ɾiʃa] | 'head' | ||
| Asturian | hora | [ˈo̞ɾä] | 'hour' | Contrasts with/r/. | |
| Azerbaijani | qara /قارا | [ɡɑˈɾɑ] | 'black' | ||
| Basque | begiratu | [be̞ˈɣ̞iɾäˌt̪u] | 'look' | Contrasts with/r/. SeeBasque phonology. | |
| Bengali | ত্রিশ | [t̪ɾiʃ] | 'dear' | Mostly pronounced [ɹ]. But may occur some word-medially and finally against[ɾ]. SeeBengali phonology. | |
| গাড়ি | [ˈɡɐɾ̠iˑ] | 'car' | Apical postalveolar flaps; contrasts unaspirated and aspirated forms.[4] SeeBengali phonology. | ||
| Catalan[5] | truc | [ˈtɾuk] | 'trick' | Contrasts with/r/. SeeCatalan phonology. | |
| Danish[6][7] | nordisk | [ˈnoɐ̯ɾisk] | 'Nordic' | Possible realization of intervocalic/d/ between phonetic vowels.[6][7] SeeDanish phonology. | |
| Dutch | reden | [ˈɾeːdə(n)] | 'reason' | Especially in the region of West Frisia. Realization of /r/ varies widely in Dutch. SeeDutch phonology. | |
| English | Cockney[8] | better | [ˈbe̞ɾɐ] | 'better' | Intervocalicallophone of/t/. In free variation with [ʔ ~tʰ ~tˢ]. SeeFlapping. |
| Australian[9] | [ˈbeɾɐ] | Intervocalic allophone of/t/ and/d/. SeeAustralian English phonology,New Zealand English phonology andFlapping. | |||
| New Zealand[10] | |||||
| Dublin[11] | [ˈbɛɾɚ]ⓘ | Intervocalic allophone of/t/ and/d/, present in many dialects. In Local Dublin it can be[ɹ] instead, unlike New and Mainstream. SeeEnglish phonology andFlapping. | |||
| North America[12] | |||||
| Ulster | |||||
| West Country | |||||
| Irish | three | [θɾ̊iː] | 'three' | Conservative accents. Corresponds to [ɹ ~ɻ ~ʁ] in other accents. | |
| Scottish[13] | Most speakers. Others use [ɹ ~r]. | ||||
| OlderReceived Pronunciation[14] | Allophone of/ɹ/. | ||||
| Scouse[13] | |||||
| South African[13] | Broad speakers. Can be [ɹ ~r] instead. | ||||
| Esperanto | Esperanto | [espeˈɾanto] | 'one who hopes' | Usually a flap[ɾ], but can be a trilledr, depending on speaker. SeeEsperanto phonology. | |
| Finnish | rotta | [ˈɾo̞t̪ːɑ] | 'rat' | Occurs in Häme (Tampere) dialect, contrasts withr in standard Finnish. SeeFinnish phonology. | |
| Greek[15] | μηρός /mirós | [miˈɾ̠o̞s̠] | 'thigh' | Somewhat retracted. Most common realization of/r/. SeeModern Greek phonology. | |
| Gokana[16] | bele | [beːɾ̠eː] | 'we' | Apical postalveolar. Allophone of/l/, medially between vowels within the morpheme, and finally in the morpheme before a following vowel in the same word. It can be apostalveolar trill or simply[l] instead.[16] | |
| Hindustani | मेरा/میرا | [ˈmeːɾäː] | 'my' | Allophone of/r/ in intervocalic position. SeeHindustani phonology. | |
| बड़ा/بڑا | [ˈbɐɾ̠äː]ⓘ | 'big' | Apical postalveolar flaps; contrasts unaspirated and aspirated forms.[17] SeeHindustani phonology. | ||
| Hungarian | kar | [ˈkɒɾ] | 'arm' | Allophone of/r/. SeeHungarian phonology. | |
| Irish | fear | [fʲaɾˠ] | 'man' | SeeIrish phonology. | |
| Italian | Standard | era | [ˈɛːɾä] | 'era' | Intervocalic realization of/r/. |
| Sicilian | drago | [ˈdɾaːɡu] | 'dragon' | ||
| Kinyarwanda | uRwanda | [u‿ɾgwɑːⁿdɑ] | 'Rwanda' | ||
| Japanese | 心 /こころkokoro | [ko̞ko̞ɾo̞ꜜ]ⓘ | 'heart' | [18] Varies with[ɺ].[19] SeeJapanese phonology. | |
| Kazakh | бер /ber | [be̞ɾ]ⓘ | 'give' | In free variation with trilled/r/. SeeKazakh phonology. | |
| Korean | 여름 /yeoreum | [jʌ̹̀ɾɯ́m] | 'summer' | Allophone of/l/ between vowels or between a vowel and an/h/. SeeKorean phonology. | |
| Kyrgyz | кырк /kyrk | [qɯɾq]ⓘ | 'forty' | SeeKyrgyz phonology. | |
| Malay | راتوس /ratus | [ɾä.tos] | 'hundred' | Common realization of/r/. May be a trilled[r] or postalveolar approximant [ɹ̠]. SeeMalay phonology. | |
| Malayalam | വര/vara | [ʋɐɾɐ] | 'line' or 'drawing' | SeeMalayalam phonology | |
| Māori | whare | [ˈɸaɾɛ] | 'house' | Sometimes trilled. | |
| Marathi | वारा | [ʋaːɾaː] | 'wind' | ||
| Nepali[20] | तारा | [t̪äɾä] | 'star' | Intervocalic allophone of/r/. SeeNepali phonology. | |
| भाड़ा | [bʱäɾ̠ä] | 'rent' | Apical postalveolar flaps; postvocalic allophone of/ɖ,ɖʱ/.[21] SeeNepali phonology. | ||
| Norwegian[22] | bare | [ˈbɑ̂ːɾə]ⓘ | 'only' | May be realised as a trill[r], approximant[ɹ] or uvular[ʀ~ʁ] depending on dialect. SeeNorwegian phonology. | |
| Odia | ରାତି /rāti | [ɾäti] | 'night' | ||
| ଗାଡ଼ି | [ɡäɾ̠iː] | 'car' | Apical postalveolar flaps; postvocalic allophone of/ɖ,ɖʱ/.[23] | ||
| Polish | który | [ˈkt̪uɾɘ̟] | 'which' | Common realization of/r/. SeePolish phonology. | |
| Portuguese[24] | prato | [ˈpɾatʊ] | 'dish' | Dental toretroflex allophones, varying by dialect. Contrasts only intervocalically with/ʁ/, with itsguttural allophones. SeePortuguese phonology. | |
| Punjabi | Gurmukhi | ਲਾਰਾ | [ˈläːɾäː] | 'false promise' | SeePunjabi phonology. |
| Shahmukhi | لارا | ||||
| Scottish Gaelic | mòr | [moːɾ] | 'big' | Both the lenited and non-initial broad form ofr. Often transcribed simply as/r/. The initial unlenited broad form is a trill[rˠ], while the slender form is[ɾʲ] ([ð] in some dialects). SeeScottish Gaelic phonology. | |
| Shipibo[25] | roro | [ˈɾ̠o̽ɾ̠o̽] | 'to break' | Apical postalveolar; possible realization of/r/.[25] | |
| Spanish[26] | caro | [ˈkaɾo̞]ⓘ | 'expensive' | Contrasts with/r/. SeeSpanish phonology. | |
| Tagalog | biro | [ˈbiɾɔʔ] | 'joke' | SeeTagalog phonology. | |
| Tamil | மரம் /maram | [mɐɾɐ́m]ⓘ | 'tree' | SeeTamil phonology. | |
| Thai | Some speakers | พระ /phrá | [pʰɾäʔ˦˥] | 'monk' | |
| Turkish[27] | ara | [ɑˈɾɑ]ⓘ | 'interval' | Intervocalically; may not make full contact elsewhere.[27] SeeTurkish phonology. | |
| Turkmen | gara | [ɢɑˈɾɑ] | 'black' | ||
| Uzbek[28] | ёмғир /yomg‘ir /یامغیر | [ʝɒ̽mˈʁ̟ɨ̞ɾ̪] | 'rain' | Denti-alveolar.[28] SeeUzbek phonology. | |
| West Coast Bajau[29] | bara' | [ba.ɾaʔ] | 'to tell' | Voiced dental flap in intervocalic position. | |
| Wu Chinese | Xuanzhou Wu | 銅陵 | [ɾom.lin] | 'Tongling' | Found in various Xuanzhou localities, with that ofTongling provided. Tones not notated due to complexity of tone sandhi. Equivalent to/d/ in other lects.[30] |
| Alveolar nasal tap/flap | |
|---|---|
| ɾ̃ | |
| n̆ | |
| IPA number | 124 424 |
| Encoding | |
| X-SAMPA | 4~ or n_X |
Features of an alveolar nasal tap or flap:
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English[31] | Estuary | twenty | [ˈtʰw̥ɛ̃ɾ̃i]ⓘ | 'twenty' | Allophone of unstressed intervocalic/nt/ for some speakers, especially in rapid or casual speech. SeeEnglish phonology,North American English regional phonology andflapping |
| North American[32] | |||||
| Guarani[33] | porã | [põˈɾ̃ã] | 'good' | Nasalized allophone of/ɾ/ as a result of nasal harmony. SeeGuarani language § Nasal harmony | |
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