tap (-r-'') as well, thus neutralizing both rhotics. Khmer Whereas standard Khmer uses an alveolar trill for , the colloquial Phnom Penh dialect uses a uvular pronunciation for the phoneme, which may be elided and leave behind a residual tonal or register contrast. Bantu Sesotho originally used an alveolar trill , which has shifted to uvular in modern times. Hill-Maṛia Hill-Maṛia (sometimes considered a dialect of Gondi) has a /ʁ/ corresponding to /r/ in other realated languages or *t̠ from proto Dravidian. Rhotic-agnostic guttural consonants written as rhotics There are languages where certain indigenous guttural consonants came to be written with symbols used in other languages to represent rhotics, thereby giving the superficial appearance of a guttural R without actually functioning as true rhotic consonants. Inuit languages The Inuit languages Greenlandic and Inuktitut either orthographize or transliterate their voiced uvular obstruent as . In Greenlandic, this phoneme is , while in Inuktitut it is . This spelling was convenient because these languages do not have non-lateral liquid consonants, and guttural realizations of are common in various languages, particularly the colonial languages Danish and French. But the Alaskan Inupiat language writes its phoneme instead as , reserving for its retroflex phoneme, which Greenlandic and Inuktitut do not have. See also R Glottal consonant Uvular consonant Rhotic consonant References Notes Works cited External links Unicode reference for IPA Article on the pronunciation of R in French Consonants Phonetics Phonology