The uvular trill is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is [[ʀ]], a small capital R. The equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is R. This consonant is one of several collectively called guttural R. Within Europe, the uvular trill seems to have originated in French, from where it spread to modern Standard German, most German dialects, some Dutch dialects, some northern Italian dialects, and the southern dialects of Swedish and Norwegian. Speakers may also have a uvular pronunciation of their language's rhotic consonant if it is difficult or impossible to pronounce an alveolar trill. See guttural R for more information.

Occurrence

Language		Word	IPA	Meaning	Notes
Abkhaz		example needed	--	--	Dialectal. See Abkhaz phonology
Modern Hebrew		ירוק	[jaˈʀok]	'green'	May also be a fricative or approximant. See Hebrew phonology
Occitan	Southern Auvergnat	garçon	[gaʀˈsu]	'son'
	Eastern dialects	?		'oak'	contrasts with alveolar trill ([gari] 'cured')
	Southeastern Limousin	filh		'son'
	Provençal	parts		'parts'
Portuguese	European	carro		'car'	See Portuguese phonology
Sioux	Lakota	ǧí	[ʀí]	'it's brown'	allophone of /ʁ/ before /i/

References

See also

• List of phonetics topics