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===Other languages=== {{angbr|R}} represents a [[rhotic consonant]] in many languages, as shown in the table below. <!-- PLEASE DO NOT ADD LANGUAGES THAT DO NOT USE THE ROMAN ALPHABET --> {| class="wikitable" style="width:85%;margin:auto" |- | style="width:35%" | [[Alveolar trill]] {{IPA|[r]}} | style="text-align:center" | [[File:Alveolar trill.ogg]] | style="width:55%" | Standard [[Dutch language|Dutch]], [[Estonian language|Estonian]], [[Finnish language|Finnish]], [[Galician language|Galician]], [[German language|German]] in some dialects, [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]], [[Icelandic language|Icelandic]], [[Indonesian language|Indonesian]], [[Italian language|Italian]], [[Czech language|Czech]], [[Javanese language|Javanese]], [[Lithuanian language|Lithuanian]], [[Latvian language|Latvian]], [[Latin language|Latin]], [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]] mostly in the northwest, [[Polish language|Polish]], [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] (traditional form), [[Romanian language|Romanian]], [[Russian language|Russian]], [[Scots language|Scots]], [[Slovak language|Slovak]], [[Swedish language|Swedish]] more frequent in northern and western dialects, as well as in [[Finland Swedish]]; [[Sundanese language|Sundanese]], [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]], [[Welsh language|Welsh]]; also [[Catalan language|Catalan]], [[Spanish language|Spanish]] and [[Albanian language|Albanian]] {{angbr|rr}} |- | style="width:35%" | [[Alveolar approximant]] {{IPA|[ɹ]}} | style="text-align:center" | [[File:Alveolar approximant.ogg]] | style="width:55%" | [[Dutch language|Dutch]] in some Netherlandic dialects (in specific positions of words), [[Faroese language|Faroese]], [[Sicilian language|Sicilian]] and [[Swedish language|Swedish]], especially when in weakly articulated positions, such as [[Final-obstruent devoicing|word-final]] |- | style="width:35%" | [[Alveolar flap]] / [[Alveolar tap]] {{IPA|[ɾ]}} | style="text-align:center" | [[File:Alveolar tap.ogg]] | style="width:55%" | [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]], [[Catalan language|Catalan]], [[Spanish language|Spanish]] and [[Albanian language|Albanian]] {{angbr|r}}; [[Turkish language|Turkish]], [[Dutch language|Dutch]], [[Italian language|Italian]], [[Venetian language|Venetian]], [[Galician language|Galician]], [[Leonese language|Leonese]], [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]], [[Irish language|Irish]], [[Swedish language|Swedish]] and [[Māori language|Māori]]<!-- DO NOT ADD JAPANESE: IT DOES NOT USE THE ROMAN ALPHABET--> |- | style="width:35%" | [[Voiced retroflex fricative]] {{IPA|[ʐ]}} | style="text-align:center" | [[File:Voiced retroflex sibilant.ogg]] | style="width:55%" | [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]] around [[Tromsø]]; [[Spanish language|Spanish]] used as an allophone of /r/ in some South American accents; [[Swedish language|Swedish]] especially in Central Swedish dialects, such as the dialect in/around [[Stockholm]]; [[Hopi language|Hopi]] used before vowels, as in ''raana'', "toad", from Spanish rana |- | style="width:35%" | [[Retroflex approximant]] {{IPA|[ɻ]}} | style="text-align:center" | [[File:Retroflex approximant.ogg]] | style="width:55%" | [[Gutnish]]; [[Pinyin|Hanyu Pinyin]] transliteration of [[Standard Chinese]] |- | style="width:35%" | [[Retroflex flap]] {{IPA|[ɽ]}} | style="text-align:center" | [[File:Retroflex flap.ogg]] | style="width:55%" | [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]] when followed by ⟨d⟩; [[Scottish English]] on occasion; [[Swedish language|Swedish]] when followed by ⟨d⟩ |- | style="width:35%" | [[Uvular trill]] {{IPA|[ʀ]}} | style="text-align:center" | [[File:Uvular trill.ogg]] | style="width:55%" | [[German language|German]] stage standard; some [[Dutch language|Dutch]] dialects (in [[Brabantian dialect|Brabant]] and [[Limburgish|Limburg]], and some city dialects in the Netherlands); [[Swedish language|Swedish]] in southern Sweden; [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]] in western and southern parts; [[Venetian language|Venetian]] only in the [[Venice]] area. |- | style="width:35%" | [[Voiced uvular fricative]] {{IPA|[ʁ]}} | style="text-align:center" | [[File:Voiced uvular fricative.ogg]] | style="width:55%" | [[North Mesopotamian Arabic]], [[Judeo-Iraqi Arabic]], [[German language|German]], [[Danish language|Danish]], [[French language|French]], standard European [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] {{angbr|rr}}, standard Brazilian [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] {{angbr|rr}}, Puerto Rican Spanish {{angbr|rr}} and 'r-' in western parts; [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]] in western and southern parts; [[Swedish language|Swedish]] in southern dialects |} Other languages may use the letter {{angbr|r}} in their alphabets (or Latin transliteration schemes) to represent rhotic consonants different from the alveolar trill. In [[Haitian Creole]], it represents a sound so weak that it is often written interchangeably with {{angbr|w}}, e.g. 'Kweyol' for 'Kreyol'. The doubled {{angbr|rr}} represents a trilled {{IPA|/r/}} in [[Albanian language|Albanian]], [[Aragonese language|Aragonese]], [[Asturian language|Asturian]], [[Basque language|Basque]], [[Catalan language|Catalan]] and [[Spanish language|Spanish]]. Brazilian [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] has a great number of allophones of {{IPAslink|ʁ}}, such as {{IPAblink|χ}}, {{IPAblink|h}}, {{IPAblink|ɦ}}, {{IPAblink|x}}, {{IPAblink|ɣ}}, {{IPAblink|ɹ}} and {{IPAblink|r}}. The latter three ones can be used only in certain contexts ({{IPAblink|ɣ}} and {{IPAblink|r}} as {{angbr|rr}}; {{IPAblink|ɹ}} in the syllable coda, as an allophone of {{IPAslink|ɾ}} according to the European Portuguese norm and {{IPAslink|ʁ}} according to the Brazilian Portuguese norm). Usually at least two of them are present in a single dialect, such as [[Rio de Janeiro]]'s {{IPAblink|ʁ}}, {{IPAblink|χ}}, {{IPAblink|ɦ}} and, for a few speakers, {{IPAblink|ɣ}}.
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