Uvular tap?

[joey]

Hey, is there an official symbol out there for a uvular tap? I'm thinking about making a language with both an alveolar and a uvular series of tap/trills, and I want to know of any suggested methods for phonetic transliteration of such a sound (if there isn't already a set symbol out there), before I post it on the board.

Yeh?

[joey]

would R\_X work?

[Whimemsz]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uvular_flap

(so the answer is yes, /R\_X/ (/ʀ̆/) can represent a uvular tap/flap, as can /G\_X/ (/ɢ̆/), but if it's not contrasted with a uvular trill you can also just use /R\/ (/ʀ/).)

[joey]

If I had known that Wikipedia entry existed, I would not have asked this question. Thank you for the assistance!

[Soap]

Note that the Wikipedia article says that it doesn't exist as a phoneme in any language. It can be an allophone of something else, but it would be very strange for it to be the main allophone of anything. Is this language exotic on purpose?

[joey]

Well, I don't know. I mean, even if no terrestrial languages have it, it doesn't seem outlandish to me. I think it would be pretty cool, especially from a diachronic point of view. I don't think a 'lang's inventory should be constrained to what's already been done. But I'm really not the best person to judge these things. I wasn't really aiming for anything particularly exotic, but I want to at least perceive myself as being somewhat original...

[Z500]

piraha has a lateral linguolabal double flap (according to wikipedia), so i don't see why not. it doesn't seem particularly outlandish, if unpronounceable to my English-speaking brain