Uvular trill

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• trill — trill1 /tril/, v.t. 1. to sing or play with a vibratory or quavering effect. 2. Phonet. to produce (a sound) with a trill. 3. (of birds, insects, etc.) to sing or utter in a succession of rapidly alternating sounds. v.i. 4. to resound vibrantly,… …   Universalium

• Uvular fluttertonguing — [ [http://idrs.colorado.edu/Publications/DR/DR7.2/DR7.2Post.html Nora Post, Monophonic sound resources for the oboe: Part I Timbre ] ] is a wind instrument technique where the instrumentalist performs and uvular trill to produce an effect like… …   Wikipedia

• Uvular consonant — Uvulars are consonants articulated with the back of the tongue against or near the uvula, that is, further back in the mouth than velar consonants. Uvulars may be plosives, fricatives, nasal stops, trills, or approximants, though the IPA does not …   Wikipedia

• Uvular flap — A 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: *Of an initial glottal stop in Southern Okanagan, [ Uvular Pharyngeal Resonants in Interior… …   Wikipedia

• Trill consonant — In phonetics, a trill is a consonantal sound produced by vibrations between the articulator and the place of articulation. Standard Spanish lt;rr gt; as in perro is an alveolar trill, while in Parisian French it is almost always uvular.Trills are …   Wikipedia

• Voiced uvular fricative — The voiced uvular fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is IPA|ʁ, and the equivalent X SAMPA symbol is R. This consonant is one of… …   Wikipedia

• Guttural R — In linguistics, guttural R (throaty R or French R) refers to pronunciation of a rhotic consonant as a guttural consonant. These consonants are usually uvular, but can also be realized as a velar, pharyngeal, or glottal rhotic. Speakers of some… …   Wikipedia

• Phonetic symbols in Unicode — Unicode supports several phonetic scripts and notations through the existing writing systems and the addition of extra blocks with phonetic characters. These phonetic extras are derived of an existing script, usually Latin, Greek or Cyrillic. In… …   Wikipedia

• Relative articulation — Places of articulation Labial Bilabial Labial–velar Labial–coronal Labiodental Dentolabial Bidental …   Wikipedia

• Obsolete and nonstandard symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet — The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) possess a variety of obsolete and nonstandard symbols. Throughout the history of the IPA, characters representing phonetic values have been modified or completely replaced. An example is ‹ɷ› for standard… …   Wikipedia