The world's rhotics 

Thanks for the details! Yeah, Brazilian has some rhotics to offer ;-)

Yet another subtlety, many older people in Portugal pronounce the /R/ as the spanish trill. To my understanding this was common in the past but seems to be disappearing. Others pronouce it as the guttural that easily decays into /h/. This page even claims that you can have all 6 rhotic variants across the different portuguese dialects: hackingportuguese.com/pronunciation/portuguese-r-the-long-version/

In the Brazilian South, the strong r found in carro (car) can be /r/ as in Spanish.

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Ik

De kinderen T

Ik aaRiwii

De Eiiwwh

That's indeed fascinating. The uvular r is still spreading!

@@ConlangKrishna It's one element in the significant shifts occuring in French Canadian accents. Education levels rose dramatically during the last several generations and a standardized prestige form of our dialects has been normalized (including our own prescriptive authority which generally but not always concurs with l'Académie Française). The net result has been a tendency towards a more standardized, more international French overall (hence little things like shifts in the uvular R) but also the rise of a pride in our own unique dialect shaped by our history (a bit like how American English, Mexican Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese are distinct dialects from their European counterparts). It has also sadly led to our rich regional accents fading as they sound more like our main urban dialects with each generation and the urban accents themselves slowly grow more international (both due to education and immigration from across la francophonie). The change in how the French of my grandparents and great-grandparents sounded versus how the French of my cousins' kids sounds is dramatic. We're in a period of fast linguistic change and it's kind of fascinating to observe. Even my own spoken French has become my normative over the years as the culture around me shifted.

i agree. my mother tongue is one sinitic language but not mandarin, we don't have any rhotic sounds. old generation would just make [l] sound for mandarin /r/, while young people taught since early stage would pronounce it 'right', but still quite different from native speakers.

Thank you for your support! I have the plan to redo the full IPA chart, as my knowledge has grown. But I am running low in ideas what else to post about...

GBoard has IPA keyboard

Thanks a lot man, you are very helpful and I like your content.

In Belgian Dutch only the 'Spanish' r and rr are used. Other pronunciations like uvular r, are manierisms.

Yes, the German and the French "r" sounds are quite similar. If you have problems with the uvular sounds, just try making a snoring sound (when you make noise while you sleep). That sound is made by the uvula!

The uvular R is uncomfortable for me in some words, so it's enticing to switch into Austrian pronunciation for those ones

@@athulfgeirsson Yes, that's ok too :) When I have to talk standard German, I also don't use the rhotic and talk with my accent. :)

In some dialects it does, in others it is pronounced more clearly. See Irish English or Swiss German. They both pronounce the "r" clearly.

Like when you say " Ich stehe hier" in modern German, it feels like you just replace r with an a, making it kind of like a "hie-a"

It is actually a palatalized rhotic with an immobilized tongue. Like when the cockney accent glottalizes the T sound in bu(tt)er by immobilizing the tongue. Or the french immobilizes the tongue in many final S or T's.

It doesn't have to be an "a". For example 'word' becomes something like 'wööd'.

@@gabor6259 yes, NURSE vowel vs START vowel.

True, they are different in Standard Mandarin. I personally know quite some people from China who confound l and r when speaking other languages, in my case, German. Same for Thai, that also has both phonemes. I have the impression it's similar to English t and θ, or Spanish θ and s. Some dialects have them merged, even if the standard variant has both.

@@ConlangKrishna I see. Yes, it's true that some people (not sure which area, but I guess the South somewhere) do pronounce Rs similar to L's even when speaking Mandarin. Some also pronounce Ns similar to an L. It would be interesting to find out who exactly does that. I would assume it's because they speak their local Chinese language more than they speak Mandarin.

You are right, it means black, or dark blue.

@@ConlangKrishna Being an Indian, I've never used krishna as dark blue. Krishna paksh- dark fortnight Nice to know a new meaning of the word, Thank you

Depends on who your talking to and where they're from, got some colleagues who say it with a rolled R and others don't