Editing Guttural R (section)

==Rhotic-agnostic guttural consonants written as rhotics==
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There are languages where certain indigenous guttural consonants came to be written with symbols used in other languages to represent rhotics, thereby giving the superficial appearance of a guttural R without actually functioning as true [[rhotic consonant]]s.

===Inuit languages===
The [[Inuit languages]] [[Greenlandic language|Greenlandic]] and [[Inuktitut]] either [[Latin alphabet|orthographize]] or [[Inuktitut syllabics|transliterate]] their [[voiced consonant|voiced]] uvular [[obstruent consonant|obstruent]] as {{angle bracket|r}}. In Greenlandic, this phoneme is {{IPA|[ʁ]}}, while in Inuktitut it is {{IPA|[ɢ]}}. This spelling was convenient because these languages do not have non-[[lateral consonant|lateral]] [[liquid consonant]]s, and guttural realizations of {{angbr|r}} are common in various languages, particularly the colonial languages [[Danish language|Danish]] and French. But the [[Alaska]]n [[Inupiat language]] writes its {{IPA|[ʁ]}} phoneme instead as {{angbr|ġ}}, reserving {{angbr|r}} for its [[retroflex consonant|retroflex]] {{IPA|[ʐ]}} phoneme, which Greenlandic and Inuktitut do not have.