Thevoiceless alveolar tap orflap is rare as a phoneme. 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. The equivalentX-SAMPA symbol is4_0.

Thevoiceless alveolar tapped fricative reported from some languages is actually a very briefvoiceless alveolar non-sibilant fricative.

Features of the voiceless alveolar tap or flap:

• Itsmanner of articulation istap or flap, which means it is produced with a single contraction of the muscles so that the tongue makes very brief contact.
• Itsplace of articulation isdental oralveolar, which means it is articulated behind upper front teeth or at thealveolar ridge. It is most oftenapical, which means that it is pronounced with the tip of the tongue.
• Itsphonation is voiceless, which means it is produced without vibrations of the vocal cords. In some languages the vocal cords are actively separated, so it is always voiceless; in others the cords are lax, so that it may take on the voicing of adjacent sounds.
• It is anoral consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth only.
• It is acentral consonant, which means it is produced by directing the airstream along the center of the tongue, rather than to the sides.
• Itsairstream mechanism ispulmonic, which means it is articulated by pushing air solely with theintercostal muscles andabdominal muscles, as in most sounds.

• Index of phonetics articles

• List of languages with[ɾ̥] onPHOIBLE
• List of languages with[ɾ̪̊] onPHOIBLE

• Alveolar consonants
• Tap and flap consonants
• Pulmonic consonants
• Voiceless oral consonants
• Central consonants

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