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Consonantal sound represented by ⟨ɢ̆⟩ or ⟨ʀ̆⟩ in IPA
The voiced uvular tap or flap is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spokenlanguages.
There is no dedicated symbol for this sound in the IPA. It can specified by adding a 'short' diacritic to the letter for the uvular plosive, ⟨ɢ̆⟩, but normally it is covered by the unmodified letter for the uvular trill, ⟨ʀ⟩, since the two have never been reported to contrast.
The uvular tap or flap is not known to exist as a phoneme in any language.
More commonly, it is said to vary with the much more frequent uvular trill, and is most likely a single-contact trill rather than an actual tap or flap in these languages.
Features
Features of the voiced uvular tap or flap:
Its manner of articulation is tap or flap, which means it is produced with a single contraction of the muscles so that one articulator (usually the tongue) is thrown against another.
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