Back Alveolarer Tap ALS لثوي مستل Arabic Звучна венечна едноударна съгласна Bulgarian দন্তমূলীয় তাড়নজাতধ্বনি Bengali/Bangla Kensonenn kevig dre stlakat Breton Bategant alveolar sonora Catalan Alveolární verberanta Czech Stimmhafter alveolarer Tap German Voiced dental and alveolar taps and flaps English Alveolara bateto Esperanto
| Voiced alveolar tap or flap | |
|---|---|
| ɾ | |
| Audio sample | |
| Encoding | |
| X-SAMPA | 4 |
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The voiced alveolar tap or flap is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages, examples are Arabic, Bengali, and Greek. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents a dental, alveolar, or postalveolar tap or flap is ⟨ɾ⟩. The terms "tap" and "flap" are the same in meaning yet they have different English spellings.