Voiced alveolar tap
consonantal sound
The voiced alveolar tap or flap is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages, examples are Arabic, Bengali, and Greek. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents a dental, alveolar, or postalveolar tap or flap is ⟨ɾ⟩. The terms "tap" and "flap" are the same in meaning yet they have different English spellings.
| Voiced alveolar tap or flap | |
|---|---|
| ɾ | |
| Audio sample | |
| Encoding | |
| X-SAMPA | 4 |
Use in languages
changeرجل [ɾeɡl] is an Egyptian word meaning 'leg', it has a flap at the start of the word. mòr [moːɾ] is a Scottish Gaelic word meaning 'big', it has a flap at the end of the word.