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Non-rhotic flaps are uncommon, but include a labiodental flap in languages of the Central African Republic and neighboring countries, such as Margi and Kera, as well as in Zimbabwe. It has also been reported from the Austronesian language Sika. Rhotic consonants, or R-like sounds, are non-lateral liquids. ... The Austronesian languages are a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Sika or Sikanese language is a member of the Central Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family, and is spoken by around 180,000 people of the Sika ethnic group on Flores island in East Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia. ...


There is no recognized IPA symbol for this sound. When described in the literature, it is often transcribed with an ad hoc use of the extra-short diacritic, [v̆]. Jump to: navigation, search The International Phonetic Alphabet uses a breve, , to indicate a vowel with less than nomal duration. ...


The sound begins with the lower lip inside the upper teeth, and then flipped outward, striking the upper teeth or upper lip or both. The bilabial flap appears to be an allophone in most if not all languages, so is might be better to speak of a labial flap. In Sika, the flap is heard in careful pronunciation, but it may also be realized as a voiced labiodental plosive, [b̪], or an affricate. It contrasts with both a bilabial and a labiodental fricative, Non-rhotic flaps are uncommon, but include a bilabial flap in the Banda and some neighboring languages. ...

[v̆oːtɛr] 'I stand a pole in the ground'
[βotɛːr] 'I buy'
[voːtɛr] 'We (inclusive) buy'

[v̆] has also been given a dedicated symbol by some researchers, Inclusive we is a pronoun that indicates the speaker, the addressee, and perhaps other people, as opposed to the exclusive we that excludes the addressee. ...


Image:Labial flap.png Image File history File links Ad hoc symbol for the labiodental flap. ...


Symbols such as these are uncommon, but are becoming more frequent now that font-editing software has become accessible. Note however that as well as not being sanctioned by the IPA, there is no Unicode value for it. Jump to: navigation, search Unicode is an international standard whose goal is to provide the means by which text of all forms and languages can be encoded for use by computers. ...


During 2005 the IPA voted to include a symbol for this sound, and they selected a 'v with a right hook' to symbolize it. Unicode remains to be updated.


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Description of the labial flap in all attested languages




  Consonants (List, table) See also: IPA, Vowels  
Pulmonics Bilabial Lab'den. Dental Alveolar Postalv. Retroflex Palatal Velar Uvular Pharyn. Epiglottal Glottal   Non-pulmonics and other symbols
Plosives p b t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k ɡ q ɢ ʡ ʔ  Clicks  ʘ ǀ ǃ ǂ ǁ
Nasals m ɱ n ɳ ɲ ŋ ɴ  Implo­sives  ɓ ɗ ʄ ɠ ʛ
Trills ʙ r • ʀ •  Ejec­tives  pʼ tʼ kʼ qʼ sʼ
Flaps & Taps • • ɾ ɽ • Other laterals  ɺ ɫ
Fricatives ɸ β f v θ ð s z ʃ ʒ ʂ ʐ ç ʝ x ɣ χ ʁ ħ ʕ ʜ ʢ h ɦ Co-articulated approximants  ʍ w ɥ
Lat. Fricatives ɬ ɮ • • • Other fricatives  ɕ ʑ ɧ
   Approximants    β̞ ʋ ɹ ɻ j ɰ Affricates  ʦ ʣ ʧ ʤ
Lat. Appr'mants l ɭ ʎ ʟ Co-articulated stops  kp ɡb ŋm
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Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right represents a voiced consonant. Shaded areas denote pulmonic articulations judged impossible.

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Flap consonant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (721 words)
In phonetics, a flap or tap is a type of consonantal sound, which is produced with a single contraction of the muscles so that one articulator (such as the tongue) is thrown against another.
The main difference between a flap and a stop consonant is that in a flap, there is no buildup of air pressure behind the place of articulation, and consequently no release burst.
They include a bilabial flap in Banda, which may be an allophone of the labiodental flap, and a velar lateral flap as an allophone in Kanite and Melpa.
Labiodental flap - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (283 words)
labiodental flap in languages of the Central African Republic and neighboring countries, such as Margi and Kera, as well as in Zimbabwe.
The labiodental flap begins with the lower lip inside the upper teeth, and then flipped outward, striking the upper teeth or upper lip or both.
In Sika, the flap is heard in careful pronunciation, but it may also be realized as a voiced labiodental plosive, [b̪] or, or an affricate.
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