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Voiceless alveolar trill

Consonantal sound represented by ⟨r̥⟩ in IPA From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Voiceless alveolar trill
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The voiceless alveolar trill differs from the voiced alveolar trill /r/ only by the vibrations of the vocal cord. It occurs in a few languages, usually alongside the voiced version, as a similar phoneme or an allophone.

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Proto-Indo-European *sr developed into a sound spelled , with the letter for /r/ and the diacritic for /h/, in Ancient Greek. It was probably a voiceless alveolar trill and became the regular word-initial allophone of /r/ in standard Attic Greek that has disappeared in Modern Greek.

  • PIE *srew- > Ancient Greek ῥέω "flow", possibly [r̥é.ɔː]
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Features

Features of the voiceless alveolar trill:

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Occurrence

Alveolar
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Voiceless alveolar fricative trill

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Quick Facts r̝̊, IPA number ...

The voiceless alveolar fricative trill is not known to occur as a phoneme in any language, except possibly the East Sakhalin dialect of Nivkh. It occurs allophonically in Czech.

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Features of the voiceless alveolar fricative trill:

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