Alveolar approximant

The alveolar approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is {{IPA|ɹ}}, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is r. The IPA symbol is a turned lowercase letter r.

In English

Most English dialects use this sound for the letter r and the digraph wr. Originally the second sound was labialized, but the distinction has been lost from most dialects, and now both r and wr are labialized at the start of a syllable, as in red {{IPA|}}.

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