Rhotic
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Rhotic is a term in linguistics derived from the Greek letter Rho which may refer to:
- Rhotic consonant, liquid consonants such as the [ɹ] sound in red
- R-colored vowel, a vowel that is modified in a way that lowers the third formant, such as the [ɝ] sound in Midwestern American English pronunciation of fur
- Erhua (simplified Chinese: 儿化; traditional Chinese: 兒化; pinyin: érhuà), a phonological process that, in Standard Chinese and other Sinitic languages, adds R-coloring to the final of a syllable
See also
[edit ]- Rhoticism (disambiguation)
- Rhotacism
- Rhoticity in English, English accents that keep /r/ or lose it in some cases
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