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The uvular 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 be transcribed by adding a 'short' diacritic to the letter for the uvular plosive or trill, ‹ɢ̆› or ‹ʀ̆›, 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 flap is not known to exist as a phoneme in any language. However, it has been reported as an allophone of other sounds in various languages, including:
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 flap in these languages. (The primary difference between a flap and a trill is that of the airstream, not the number of contacts.)
Features
Features of the uvular flap:
- Its manner of articulation is flap, which means it is produced with a single contraction of the muscles so that one articulator is thrown against another.
- Its place of articulation is uvular which means it is articulated with the back of the tongue (the dorsum) against or near the uvula.
- Its phonation type is voiced, which means the vocal cords are vibrating during the articulation.
- It is an oral consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth.
- It is a central consonant, which means it is produced by allowing the airstream to flow over the middle of the tongue, rather than the sides.
- The airstream mechanism is pulmonic egressive, which means it is articulated by pushing air out of the lungs and through the vocal tract, rather than from the glottis or the mouth.
Occurrence
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes |
|---|
| Supyire[2] | tadugugo | [taduɢ̆uɢ̆o] | 'place to go up' | may also be pronounced [taduɢ̆uɡo], as [ɢ̆] and [ɡ] may be in free variation |
References
Bibliography
- Carlson, Robert (1994). A Grammar of Supyire. Walter de Gruyter.
- Kinkade, M. Dale (1967), [Expression error: Missing operand for > "Uvular-Pharyngeal Resonants in Interior Salish"], International Journal of American Linguistics 33 (3)
- Phillips, Donald J. (1976). Wahgi Phonology and Morphology.
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