uvular plosive is a standard pronunciation of the letter (). Ethiopic In Amharic the alveolar trill is the usual pronunciation of . But there are also assertions that around Addis Abeba some dialects exhibit a uvular r. Note that this information is not very well supported among Semitists. Also in Gafat (extinct since the 1950s) a uvular fricative or trill might have existed. Akkadian The majority of Assyriologists deem an alveolar trill or flap the most likely pronunciation of Akkadian in most dialects. However, there are several indications toward a velar or uvular fricative ~ particularly supported by John Huehnergard. The main arguments constitute alternations with the voiceless uvular fricative (e.g. ruššû/ḫuššû "red"; barmātu "multicolored" (fem. pl.), the spelling ba-aḫ-ma-a-tù is attested). Besides shows certain phonological parallelisms with and other gutturals (especially the glottal stop ). Austronesian Malayan languages Guttural R exists among several Malay dialects. While standard Malay commonly uses coronal r (,,), the guttural fricative (~) are more prominently used in many dialects in Peninsular Malaysia and East Malaysia as well as some parts of Sumatra and East Kalimantan. These dialects include: Pahang Malay Kedah Malay Kelantan-Pattani Malay Negeri Sembilan Malay Sarawak Malay Terengganu Malay Perak Malay Tamiang Malay Pontianak Malay Palembang Malay ~ Perak Malay and Kedah Malay are the most notable examples. These dialects mainly use the guttural fricative (~) for both /r/ and /gh/. Standard Malay includes both coronal r (,,) and voiced guttural fricative /gh/ (~) as two different phonemes. To denote the guttural r in the dialects, the letter "r" is often replaced by "gh" or "q" in informal writing . Standard Malay words with voiced velar fricative (), such as loghat (dialect) and ghaib (invisible, mystical) are mostly Arabic loanwords spelled in their origin language with the letter in the Jawi alphabet. Other Austronesian languages Other Austronesian languages with similar features are: Acehnese Alas-Kluet Cham Minangkabau (closely related to Malay that it might be dialects of the same language) Lampung Piuma Sapediq Rinaxekerek Sinvaudjan Other language families Basque Standard Basque uses a trill for (written as r-, -rr-, -r), but most speakers of the Lapurdian and Low Navarrese dialects use a voiced uvular fricative as in French. In the Southern Basque Country, the uvular articulation is seen as a speech defect, but the prevalence is higher among bilinguals than among Spanish monolinguals. Recently, speakers of Lapurdian and Low Navarrese are uvularizing the