Voiceless alveolar and postalveolar approximants


The voiceless alveolar approximant is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents the alveolar and postalveolar voiceless approximants is, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is r\_0.

Features

Features of the voiceless alveolar approximant:

Occurrence

Alveolar

Postalveolar