Voiceless alveolar tap and flap
The voiceless alveolar tap or flap is rare as a phoneme. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ɾ̥⟩, a combination of the letter for the voiced alveolar tap/flap and a diacritic indicating voicelessness. The equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is 4_0.
| Voiceless alveolar tap | |
|---|---|
| ɾ̥ | |
| IPA Number | 124 402A |
| Encoding | |
| X-SAMPA | 4_0 |
The voiceless alveolar tapped fricative reported from some languages is actually a very brief voiceless alveolar non-sibilant fricative.
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