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| Voiceless alveolar tap | |
|---|---|
| ɾ̥ | |
| IPA number | 124 402A |
| Audio sample | |
| Encoding | |
| X-SAMPA | 4_0 |
Avoiceless alveolar tap orflap is a type ofconsonantal sound, used in some spokenlanguages, though only reported to exist as anallophone. The symbol in theInternational Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ɾ̥⟩, a combination of the letter for thevoiced alveolar tap/flap and adiacritic indicatingvoicelessness.
Avoiceless alveolar tapped fricative reported from some languages is actually a very briefvoiceless alveolar non-sibilant fricative.[citation needed]
Features of a voiceless alveolar tap or flap:
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | throw | [θɾ̪̊oʊ] | 'throw' | Allophone of/ɹ/ after/θ/. | |
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bengali[1] | আবার | [ˈäbäɾ̥] | 'again' | Possible allophone of/ɹ/ in the syllable coda.[1] SeeBengali phonology | |
| Greek | Cypriot | αρφός | [ɐɾ̥ˈfo̞s] | 'brother' | Allophone of/ɾ/ before voiceless consonants. May be avoiceless alveolar trill instead |
| Icelandic | hrafn | [ˈɾ̥apn̪̊] | 'raven' | Realization of/r̥/ for some speakers. Also illustrates/n̥/. SeeIcelandic phonology | |
| Portuguese | European[2] | assar | [əˈsäɾ̥] | 'to bake' | Apparent allophone of/ɾ/; distribution unclear, but common in thecoda inJesus (2001)'s corpus. SeePortuguese phonology |
| Turkish | bir | [biɾ̝̊] | 'one' | /ɾ/ is frequently devoiced word-finally and before a voiceless consonant. SeeTurkish phonology | |
| Wu Chinese | Xuanzhou Wu (Nanling variety) | 弟 | /ɾ̥ɦi˨˦/ | 'brother' | /ɾ̥ɦ/ corresponds to /d/ in other varieties (cf.Shanghainese/di˩˦/). Xuanzhou varieties tend to have /ɾ/ as their primary realisation of this phoneme (cf.Tonglingese [zh] /ɾɦi˧˦/) |