Voiceless dental and alveolar taps and flaps
| Voiceless alveolar tap | |
|---|---|
| ɾ̥ | |
| IPA number | 124 402A |
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| Encoding | |
| X-SAMPA | 4_0 |
Voiceless alveolar and dental taps (or flaps) are a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages, though only reported to exist as an allophone. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ɾ̥⟩, a combination of the letter for the voiced alveolar tap/flap and a diacritic indicating voicelessness.
A voiceless alveolar tapped fricative reported from some languages is actually a very brief voiceless alveolar non-sibilant fricative.