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The voiceless alveolar trill differs from the voiced alveolar trill only by the vibrations of the vocal cord. It occurs in a few languages, usually alongside the voiced version, as a similar phoneme or an allophone.
Proto-Indo-European developed into a sound spelled , with the letter for and the diacritic for , in Ancient Greek. It was probably a voiceless alveolar trill and became the regular word-initial allophone of in standard Attic Greek that has disappeared in Modern Greek.
| Dharumbal | ba rhi | 'stone' | Contrasts with . | ||
| Estonian | This is an example. | Word-final allophone of after . See Estonian phonology | |||
| Dutch language | he rinvoering | 'reinstatement' | Possible word-final allophone of ; | ||
| Icelandic | hrafn | 'raven' | Contrasts with . For some speakers it may actually be a voiceless flap. Also illustrates . See Icelandic phonology | ||
| Konda | pu Ri | 'ant hill' | Contrasts . | ||
| Lezgian language | Cyrillic script]]/ k rčar | 'horns' | Allophone of between voiceless obstruents | ||
| Limburgish | Hasselt dialect | gee r | 'odour' | Possible word-final allophone of ; may be uvular instead.While does not state that explicitly, he uses the symbol for many instances of the word-final . See Hasselt dialect phonology | |
| Moksha language | Cyrillic script/närhn'e | 'these grasses' | Contrasts with : нарня "short grass". It has the palatalized counterpart : ма рьхне "these apples", but марьня "little apple" | ||
| Nivkh language | Khabarovsk Krai | Cyrillic script/řy | 'door' | Contrasts with . In the Sakhalin dialect, typically fricated . | |
| Northern Qiang | This is an example. | Contrasts with | |||
| Northern Sámi | čahrrat | ˈt͡ʃar̥.r̥ah(t) | 'to talk or laugh noisily' | ||
| Polish language | Polish alphabet]] | 'larynx' | Allophone of when surrounded by voiceless consonants, or word finally after voiceless consonants. See Polish phonology | ||
| Ukrainian | цент р/centr | 'centre' | Word-final allophone of after . See Ukrainian phonology | ||
| Welsh language | Welsh alphabet]] | 'December' | Contrasts with . See Welsh phonology | ||
| Yaygir language | di rha | 'tooth' | Contrasts with . | ||
| Zapotec | Quiegolani | rsil | 'early' | Allophone of . | |
| Czech language | Czech alphabet]] | 'three hundred' | Allophone of after voiceless consonants; may be a tapped fricative instead. See Czech phonology | ||
| Norwegian | Areas around Narvik | no rsk | 'Norwegian' | Allophone of the sequence before voiceless consonants. | |
| Some subdialects of Trøndersk | |||||
| Nivkh language | Sakhalin Oblast | Cyrillic script | 'door' | Contrasts with . In the Amur dialect, typically realized as . | |
| Polish language | Some dialects | Polish alphabet]] | 'to come' | Allophone of after voiceless consonants for speakers that do not merge it with . Present in areas from Starogard Gdański to Malbork and those south, west and northwest of them, area from Lubawa to Olsztyn to Olecko to Działdowo, south and east from Wieleń, around Wołomin, southeast from Ostrów Mazowiecka and west from Siedlce, from Brzeg to Opole and those north of them, and roughly from Racibórz to Nowy Targ. Most speakers, including speakers of standard Polish, pronounce it the same as , and speakers maintaining the distinction (which is mostly the elderly) sporadically do so too. | |
| Silesian | Allophone of after voiceless consonants. It's pronounced the same as in most Polish dialects | ||||
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