Flap Consonant - IPA Symbols

IPA Symbols

The flap and tap consonants identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet are:

IPA Description Example
Language Orthography IPA Meaning
ɾ alveolar tap North American English latter /læɾɚ/ "latter"
ɺ alveolar lateral flap Japanese ラーメン /ɺaːmeɴ/ "ramen"
ɽ retroflex flap Warlpiri dupa /ɽupa/ "windbreak"
labiodental flap Karang /v̛ara/ "animal"

The IPA recommends that for other flaps, a homorganic consonant, such as a stop or trill, should be used with a breve diacritic:

Tap or Flaps: where no independent symbol for a tap is provided, the breve diacritic should be used, e.g. or .

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