Editing Tap and flap consonants (section)

===Non-coronal flaps===
The only common non-[[coronal consonant|coronal]] flap is the [[labiodental flap]], found throughout central Africa in languages such as [[Margi language|Margi]]. In 2005, the IPA adopted a right-hook v, {{angbr IPA|ⱱ}}:

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Previously it had been transcribed with the use of the breve diacritic, {{IPA|[v̆]}}, or other ''ad hoc'' symbols.

Other taps or flaps are much less common. They include an [[epiglottal tap]]; a [[bilabial flap]] in [[Banda languages|Banda]], which may be an [[allophone]] of the labiodental flap; and a [[velar lateral tap]] as an allophone in [[Kanite language|Kanite]] and [[Melpa language|Melpa]]. These are often transcribed with the breve diacritic, as {{IPA|[w̆, ʟ̆]}}. Note here that, like a velar [[trill consonant|trill]], a central velar flap or tap is not possible because the tongue and [[soft palate]] cannot move together easily enough to produce a sound.{{cn|date=January 2024}}

If other flaps are found, the breve diacritic could be used to represent them, but would more properly be combined with the symbol for the corresponding voiced stop. A [[palatal consonant|palatal]] or [[uvular consonant|uvular]] tap or flap, which unlike a velar tap is believed to be articulatorily possible, could be represented this way (by {{IPA|*[ɟ̆, ɢ̆~ʀ̆]}}).<ref>The IPA has recommended {{angbr|ʀ̆}}, but that could be confused with an extra-short (e.g. one-contact) trill. {{angbr|ɢ̆}} is less ambiguous, because articulatorily taps are extra-short stops.</ref>

Though deemed impossible on the IPA chart, a velar tap has been reported to occur allophonically in the [[Kamviri dialect]] of the [[Kamkata-vari language]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/nurestani-languages-archive|title=Nurestâni Languages|author=Strand, Richard F.| year=2010|publisher=Encyclopaedia Iranica, Online Edition|access-date=2015-06-20}}</ref> and in [[Dagaare language|Dàgáárè]], though at least in the latter case this may in fact be a palatal tap.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Akinbo |first1=Samuel |last2=Angsongna |first2=Alexander |last3=Ozburn |first3=Avery |last4=Schellenberg |first4=Murray |last5=Pulleyblank |first5=Douglas |year=2022 |chapter=Dàgáárè (Central) |editor-last1=Sibanda |editor-first1=Galen |editor-last2=Ngonyani |editor-first2=Deo |editor-last3=Choti |editor-first3=Jonathan |editor-last4=Biersteker |editor-first4=Ann |title=Descriptive and theoretical approaches to African linguistics: Selected papers from the 49th Annual Conference on African Linguistics |publisher=Language Science Press |location=Berlin |isbn=978-3-96110-340-9 |pages=1–8 |doi=10.5281/zenodo.6393732 |url=https://zenodo.org/record/6393732}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Angsongna |first1=Alexander |last2=Akinbo |first2=Samuel |year=2022 |title=Dàgáárè (Central) |journal=Journal of the International Phonetic Association |volume=52 |issue=2 |pages=341–367 |doi=10.1017/S0025100320000225|s2cid=243402135 }}</ref>