Raised Alveolar Non-sonorant Trill
In Czech there are two contrasting alveolar trills. Besides the typical trill, written r, there is another, written ř, in words such as rybáři 'fishermen' and the common surname Dvořák. Its manner of articulation is similar to but the tongue is raised; it is partially fricative, with the frication sounding rather like, though not so retracted. Thus in the IPA it is written as ⟨r⟩ plus the raising diacritic, ⟨r̝⟩. (Before the 1989 IPA Kiel Convention, it had a dedicated symbol ⟨ ɼ⟩). It is normally voiced, but there is a voiceless allophone as with many other Czech consonants.
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