Editing Guttural R (section)

===Danish and Swedish===
The rhotic used in [[Denmark]] is a [[voiced uvular approximant]], and the nearby Swedish ex-Danish regions of [[Scania]], [[Blekinge]], southern [[Halland]] as well as a large part of [[Småland]] and on the [[Öland]] island, use a [[uvular trill]] or a [[Voiced uvular fricative|uvular fricative]].

To some extent in [[Östergötland]] and still quite commonly in [[Västergötland]], a mixture of guttural and rolling rhotic consonants (e.g. {{IPA|/ʁ/}} and {{IPA|/r/}} is used, with the pronunciation depending on the position in the word, the stress of the syllable and in some varieties depending on whether the consonant is [[gemination|geminated]]. The pronunciation remains if a word that is pronounced with a particular rhotic consonant is put into a compound word in a position where that realization would not otherwise occur if it were part of the same stem as the preceding sound. However, in Östergötland the pronunciation tends to gravitate more towards {{IPA|[w]}} and in Västergötland the realization is commonly voiced.
Common from the time of [[Gustav III]] (Swedish king 1771–1792), who was much inspired by French culture and language, was the use of guttural R in the nobility and in the upper classes of [[Stockholm]]. This phenomenon vanished in the 1900s. The last well-known non-Southerner who spoke with a guttural R, and did not have a speech defect, was [[Anders Gernandt (equestrian)|Anders Gernandt]], a popular [[equitation]] commentator on TV.