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 Rhotic consonant Did You Mean rhotic_consonant
The bilabial trill, however, is not considered a rhotic.
In many languages taps are used as reduced variants of trills, especially in fast speech.
Many languages, for example Russian or Italian, use trilled rhotics.
http://www.did-you-mean.com/Rhotic_consonant.html   (556 words)

  
 [conlang] Digest Number 4087
I've always assumed these were more recent developments and resulted from the weakening of the already weak uvular approximant.
I've always assumed these were more recent >developments and resulted from the weakening of the already weak uvular >approximant.
I've always assumed these were more recent > developments and resulted from the weakening of the already weak uvular > approximant.
http://www.mail-archive.com/conlang@yahoogroups.com/msg00080.html   (7482 words)

  
 Tenser, said the Tensor: Trill Instructions
But it was better than before, since I could sort of fake a trill a little.
The difficulty creeps in when I try to pronounce a soft trilled r ([r&;]?), which the instructions do...
Your instructions are helpful, but I don't understand the linguistic symbols used to guide level 2 and 3 speakers.
http://tenser.typepad.com/tenser_said_the_tensor/2004/04/trill_instructi.html   (4103 words)

  
 Uvular - KutjaraWiki
Since English completely lacks uvulars, they are difficult to learn for many English-speaking conlangers.
One way to learn to pronounce them is to start with a velar sound (for instance /k/) and gradually move the tongue backwards.
Uvular consonants are much rarer than velars; most languages that have them have just a couple.
http://www.kutjara.com/wiki/index.php?title=Uvular   (178 words)

  
 Tenser, said the Tensor: R-Sounds
The approximant r-sounds (which include the English variant) are found in only 47 languages, and the uvular fricative and trill occur in only 22 and 4 languages, respectively.
This got me wondering what the most common r-sound is. As it happens, last year for a phonology project I imported the UPSID database (which I've mentioned before) into Access, so I can quickly write SQL queries on its contents: the phoneme inventories of 451 genetically diverse languages.
The alveolar/dental trill is the most common of these sounds, with 155 languages having at least one of them (there are no languages with more than one of them).
http://tenser.typepad.com/tenser_said_the_tensor/2004/08/rsounds.html   (427 words)

  
 Uvular trill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lenin is probably the most famous Russian to use uvular trills; he even used them in public speeches.
The uvular trill is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.
This page contains phonetic information in IPA, which may not display correctly in some browsers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uvular_trill   (359 words)

  
 All Languages: Pronunciation of the letter R - WordReference Forums
(Google on trill tap>; or instead of filtering by country domain, filter by language using Advanced Search.) This text also uses trill, tap.
For geographical information about specific languages and to learn their language family affiliations, search www.ethnologue.org.
And in the canton Bern the uvular R is considered an aristocratic way of speech.
http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?p=517995   (2096 words)

  
 Introduction to Segmental Phonology: Sound Index
The following is an index of the uvular segments currently found in the feature database.
A short phonetic description is linked to a page with details about each segment.
http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/projects/featuresoftware/browse_sounds.php?soundset=18   (40 words)

  
 English "r" and small children (page 3) Antimoon Forum
I, on the other hand, have trouble with the uvular trill, but the alveolar trill such as in Spanish and Italian is quite easy for me. Perhaps it has something to do with the languages we learned in our youth?
For languages in which it is not present, it is difficult for its speakers to produce.
For example Icelanders (though northerly) and Italians use the alveolar trill (tongue trill) for "R" so for them the uvular trill is troublesome.
http://www.antimoon.com/forum/posts/6484-3.htm   (508 words)

  
 [Vastavox] Uvular Trill
I remember Doug Honorof mentioning about the need to brace the moving part against a rigid part to allow a trill to occur.
I spent 6 months living in France when I was 7 and learned to trill my tongue with the best of them, and have always thought this was one of the reasons I was attracted to voice, speech and dialect work in the first place.
I have students do a voiceless lingua-velar fricative [x] with words like "chutzpah, loch, ach, Bach, etc." I then have them do it with voicing [X] which gets some of them trilling right away (never know why, but it does).
http://maillists.uci.edu/mailman/public/vastavox/2002-January/000049.html   (854 words)

  
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For more information, see the main article about
Articles in category "Uvular R" There are 22 articles in this category.
http://www.brujula.net/english/wiki/Category:Uvular_R.html   (20 words)

  
 LINGUIST List 12.2753: Trills and Second Language Accent
yahoo.com> Replies to the first question, on whether any language contrasts alveolar and uvular trills, were as follows: 1.
ccms.ntu.edu.tw http://ccms.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung I asked two questions: (1) Are there languages in which the alveolar trill and uvular trill co-occur as separate phonemes?
According to Donald Reindl, Chechen is a language in which the alveolar trill (written as "r" in Cyrillic orthography) and uvular trill (written as "gI" in Cyrillic orthography) co-occur as separate phonemes.
http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/linguist/issues/12/12-2753.html   (783 words)

  
 pne: German has uvular fricatives!
AIUI, for instance, the Yiddish accent has /x/ for both the ich-laut and the ach-laut.
I think I've read that it depends on the preceding vowel whether it's [x] or [X].
Once I got the hang of that, I didn't have much of a problem with the trill either, even though in combination with some other consonants I can't pronounce them.
http://pne.livejournal.com/394696.html   (699 words)

  
 Guttural R - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
These are not considered true guttural R languages for this reason.
These conventions were not as strictly adhered to in the various film and animation versions of Tolkien's works.
People learning Dutch as a foreign language also tend to use the alveolar trill because it contrasts better with the velar fricative sound /x/ used for CH and G in Dutch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uvular_R   (1505 words)

  
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TRILL B\ \0x0299 vd bilabial trill R\ \0x0280 vd uvular trill #
N\ \0x0274 vd uvular nasal N \0x014B vd velar nasal #
NASAL n` \0x0273 vd retroflex nasal N\ \0x0274 vd uvular nasal #
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~nss/encoder/x-sampa.edict   (751 words)

  
 Trill - KutjaraWiki
Usually alveolar, although dental and postalveolar trills occur in some languages.
); the sound is actually postalveolar, but the "retracted" diacritic is not used, since no language distinguishes it from an alveolar fricative trill.
Some people are able to produce an additional trill with the back of the tongue, but this talent is too rare for the sound to occur in any human languages.
http://www.kutjara.com/wiki/index.php?title=Trill   (158 words)

  
 Trill: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
...The velar fricative x is a dorso-uvular trill (sometimes weakening to a fricative).
...organized statement is embedded in the trill (see m.
The themes also share a trill, which, however, does not appear in all...
http://www.questia.com/library/encyclopedia/trill.jsp?l=T&p=4   (1241 words)

  
 Image:Uvular trill.ogg - Wikimedia Commons
Pronunciation of a uvular trill, [ʀ] between two [a]s.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Uvular_trill.ogg   (133 words)

  
 Rolling R in German Antimoon Forum
It depends on whether you use uvular or alveolar R in your mother language.
The alveolar 'r' is used in Spanish and many languages, both as a flap and a trill (phonemically distinct in Spanish and some other languages).
Peter Trudgill in his book SOCIOLINGUISTICS gives a map on Uvular R distribution in Europe...
http://www.antimoon.com/forum/posts/7139.htm   (759 words)

  
 linguaphiles: This has been bugging me for a while, b
But there are accents where they use the uvular /r/.
Remember we hear sound waves, not tongue positions, and it's possible for similar sounds to be made in different ways.
2) What the different pronunciations are in as many languages as possible (trilled, hacked, nasal so that it sounds like a "w", whatever)
http://community.livejournal.com/linguaphiles/948455.html   (808 words)

  
 Trills (from phonetics) --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
Trills of the lips are even rarer but do occur in a few African languages.
Tongue tip trills occur in some forms of Scottish English in words such as rye and ire.
Uvular trills are comparatively rare but are used in some dialects of French, but not Parisian French.
http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-69020   (846 words)

  
 Anggarrgoon » Blog Archive » Are uvular trills liquids?
So I guess the answer depends very much on your orthography, and how the phoneme patterns in the phoneme system of the language.
In field methods earlier this year we occasionally mistook [ʁ] for an alveolar trill [r] (or the ‘flap’ which we are transcribing as [ɺ]).
It’s true that /ʁ/ is occasionally a fricative rather than a trill, although the default realisation is the trill.
http://anggarrgoon.wordpress.com/2006/02/16/are-uvular-trills-liquids   (489 words)

  
 Uv Uvalda, Georgia Uvalde, Texas Uvalde County Uvalde County, Texas Uvalde County, Texas Uvalde Estates, Texas Uvall ...
Uvular consonant - The unvoiced uvular fricative is also exceedingly rare.
Uvular trill - The uvular trill is a type of al sound,...
Uvular nasal - The uvular nasal is a type of al sound,...
http://www.biodatabase.de/?Uv   (141 words)

  
 Uvular Trill - Uvular trill
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http://henry.blogiston.com/henry/henry_hudson/Uvular_trill   (130 words)

  
 three questions about the dutch "r"
I was wondering, given the nature of the Dutch "g," how the word "groot" ("big") for example, is pronounced with a uvular "r." It would seem awfully difficult to distinguish "groot" from "goot" ("gutter"), say.
In modern Dutch, the "r" is trilled before vowels, but pronounced something like an American "r" before consonants and at the end of words (as far as I can tell).
Is there a very clearly audible distinction between the two, or is context required?
http://www.talkaboutscience.com/group/sci.lang/messages/321804.html   (215 words)

  
 conlangs: Favorite Phonetic Value
Might be misnaming the sound; it may just be a pharyngealized uvular affricate or somesuch.
It may not even be a trill, now that I think of it.
Since it turns out that both the ejective and non-ejective consonants are believed to have been phonemes in Proto-Semitic (one of the sources of Tech), I had to include those in my inventory.
http://community.livejournal.com/conlangs/272367.html   (882 words)

  
 Assignment of ASCII Characters to IPA Symbols
the author are: the frequency of the sound in various languages (e.g., ASCII R is assigned to IPA alveolar trill
Wherever this is impossible, other principles that have been followed by
http://www.cogsci.indiana.edu/farg/harry/lan/proj/IPA/IPA.htm   (302 words)

  
 Trill Consonant - Trill consonant
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http://maddox.bloggerus.com/Trill_consonant   (149 words)

  
 LINGUIST List 14.2636: Re: Genetic clicks
But there seems to be a discontinuity between vocal play and babbling: neither the uvular trill nor the click were integrated into his babbled syllables, even when babbled syllables were interspresed with the production of vocal play sounds.
It appears that there is some continuity between babbling and first words (contrary to what Jakobson thought: see Vihman et al 1985), but a discontinuity between vocal play and babbling, even if the two overlap for a certain time.
This is because, if MacNeilage (1998) is right, babbling is essentially jaw-driven (rather than tongue-driven), the tongue not being much of an active articulator during babble (which it has to be in clicks).
http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/linguist/issues/14/14-2636.html   (373 words)

  
 Language Learning Forum: Arabic uvular trill
In Arabic there are two different letters which could be regarded as "r" sounds.
Yes, the uvular trill is like the French R. Al-Malik
Are you referring to Modern Standard Arabic =MSA?
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=728&PN=1   (447 words)

  
 Non-English sounds
Alveolar trill: Finnish (audio files from Travlang, a travel language site)
Alveolar~dental tap: Japanese examples are available on the "Colors" page from About.com's Japanese language site (flap is "spelled" with r in these examples)
-- Note: The sound transcribed [r] is a tap, not a trill
http://www.unc.edu/~jlsmith/lgsounds.html   (116 words)

  
 Hexapedia - Allpages - Uv
No subject found for Uvular r or page is under construction
http://uvular_r.en.hexafind.com   (48 words)

  
 Dutch_language information. LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER
In other dialects, however, it is realized as the uvular trill [ʀ] or as the alveolar trill [r].
In the so-called "standard" Dutch, /r/ is realized as indicated here—as the voiced uvular fricative [ʁ].
http://www.school-explorer.com/Dutch   (5587 words)

  
 Article about "Trill consonant" in the English Wikipedia on 24-Apr-2004
In phonetics, a trill is a type of consonantal sound, which means it is produced by vibrations of the tongue against the place of articulation.
Spanish as in perro is an alveolar trill.
http://fixedreference.org/en/20040424/wikipedia/Trill_consonant   (88 words)

  
 vietnamese 6 r-trilling
= actual areas of r --> uvular trill
= potential areas for r --> uvular trill
http://classweb.gmu.edu/accent/generalizations/vietnamese6/vie6trilling.html   (16 words)

  
 Indo-Hittite
The voiced stops are rarely found in Greek; they occur primarily in loanwords or as conditioned allophones of the voiceless stops.
***usually uvular trill; dental trill in some dialects
*separate phonemes; a lateral liquid and a dental flap (or trill)
http://home.comcast.net/~pgdt/Phonology/indo.html   (181 words)

  
 Taruven: sounds
Affricate: Slide from uvular trill, or unvoiced velar fricative, to standard trill ()
http://taliesin.nvg.org/taruven/sounds.html   (1206 words)

  
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UCS ALTERNATE (wrong shape)for interchange use IPA104 + IPA155
voiced strident apico-alveolar fricative trill For interchange use IPA122 + IPA429
http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/text-processing/sgml/TEI/TEIPHON.WSD   (49 words)

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