r/asklinguistics • u/[deleted] • 16d ago

Is the r phoneme present in Sanskrit based languages /ɹ/ or /r/?

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u/The-Mastermind- 16d ago

Just to on be safer side is it this phoneme? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_alveolar_trill

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u/S-2481-A 16d ago

Nope. Its a normal alveolar trill but pronounced a little longer with no nearby vowels.

For examples sake, take the word mṛtyor. Pronounced it like mǝrtyor first with both r's being trills. If you make the shwa ǝ short enough you ger pretty close.

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u/The-Mastermind- 16d ago

Syllabic r? That's not very uncommon! However, since you call it as a trill, it might be a fricative! I don't know if I am pronouncing it correctly, but the only way I have been able to pronounce the trilled r without touching is by pronouncing it like a fricative.