In the context of phonetics like Ğ, a voiced uvular tap or flap is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. 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, , but normally it is covered by the unmodified letter for the uvular trill, ,Bruce Connell, Lower Cross Wordlist since the two have never been reported to contrast and a uvular tap or flap is not known to exist as a phoneme in any language.
In some languages a uvular tap is reported is said to vary allophonically with a uvular trill, and is most likely a single-contact trill rather than an actual tap or flap in these languages.
Features Features of a voiced uvular tap or flap:
Occurrence
Language Word IPA Meaning Notes Dutch 'red' More common than a uvular trill. Realization of varies considerably among dialects. See Dutch phonologyEnglishNorthumbrianred[]'red'Tap, or also a tapped fricative,Påhlsson, C. (1972) The Northumbrian Burr. Lund: Gleerup. most usually a plain fricative. See Northumbrian burr German Standard 'honor' Common intervocalic realization of uvular trill. See Standard German phonologyHiu 'hibiscus'Ibibio ufʌkọ 'summary' Intervocalic allophone of ; may be a velar approximant instead. Limburgish Hasselt dialect '(they) were' Possible intervocalic allophone of ; may be alveolar instead. See Hasselt dialect phonology Okanagan Southern ʕaləp 'lose' Allophone of ; corresponds to in other dialects. Supyire tadugugo 'place to go up' May be in free variation with . Wahgi Allophone of . Yiddish Standard 'bridge' Less commonly a trill ; can be alveolar instead. See Yiddish phonology
Tapped fricative
Language Word IPA Meaning NotesEnglishNorthumbrianred[]'red'Tap, or also a tapped fricative,Påhlsson, C. (1972) The Northumbrian Burr. Lund: Gleerup. most usually a plain fricative. See Northumbrian burrScotsPossible realization of /r/. Tapped fricative, also can be a trilled instead.
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