Alveolar approximant facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Alveolar approximant |
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| ɹ | |||
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| IPA number | 151 | ||
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| Entity (decimal) | ɹ |
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| Unicode (hex) | U+0279 | ||
| X-SAMPA | r\ |
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| Kirshenbaum | r |
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The alveolar approximant is a consonant. We use it in some spoken languages. International Phonetic Alphabet represents the alveolar and postalveolar approximants as ⟨⟩. International Phonetic Alphabet represents it as a lowercase letter r rotated 180 degrees, or in broad transcription ⟨⟩; the X-SAMPA symbol of this is ⟨r\⟩.
Many times the symbol is written as ⟨⟩ instead of ⟨⟩ because typing ⟨⟩ is easier.
Occurrence
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
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| Armenian | Eastern | սուրճ | 'coffee' | ||
| Chukchi | ңирэк | 'two' | |||
| Dutch | Goois | door | 'through' | Most dialects use an alveolar tap or trill. See Dutch phonology | |
| Leiden dialect | rat | 'rat' | |||
| English | American dialects | red | 'red' | Often retracted and labialized. In non-rhotic dialects, it occurs only before a vowel. May also be a labialized retroflex approximant; corresponds to an alveolar trill or alveolar tap in a few other dialects. For convenience it is often transcribed <r>. See English phonology | |
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| Faroese | róður | 'rudder' | |||
| German | Westerwald | Rebe | 'vine shoot' | Most other dialects use a voiced uvular fricative or uvular trill. See German phonology | |
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| Portuguese | Many Central-Southern Brazilian dialects | verde | 'green' | Syllable-final allophone of rhotic consonant and also. See Portuguese phonology | |
| Some countryside Central-Southern Brazilian dialects | temporal | 'rainstorm' | |||
| Spanish | Some dialects | doscientos | 'two hundred' | Allophone of in the syllable coda. See Spanish phonology | |
| Vietnamese | rơ | 'to clean' | See Vietnamese phonology | ||
| Zapotec | Tilquiapan | rdɨ | 'pass' | Allophone of before any consonant. | |
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