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Rāʾ راء
Rāʾ راء
ر
Usage
Writing system	Arabic script
Type	Abjad
Language of origin	Arabic language
Sound values	r (ɾ)
Alphabetical position	10
History
Development	𐤓 𐡓‎ 𐢛‎ ر; ; ;
Other
Writing direction	Right-to-left
	This page contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

Help:IPA/French - Nasal vowels

Nasal vowels
ɑ̃	sans, champ, vent, Jean, taon	roughly like song
	Europe: temps^ⓘ [ɒ̃]	nasalized bother
	Canada: temps^ⓘ [ã]	nasalized trap (RP)
ɛ̃	vin, impair, daim, plein, Reims, synthèse, sympathique, bien	roughly like hang or Spanish ángel
	Europe: pain^ⓘ [æ̃]	nasalized trap (American)
	Canada: pain^ⓘ [ẽĩ̯]	nasalized mace or dress
œ̃	un^ⓘ, parfum^ⓘ^{[note 1]}	roughly like non-rhotic burn; nasalized [œ]
ɔ̃	vont, nom	roughly like Australian drawn
	Europe: son^ⓘ [õ]	nasalized story
	Canada: son^ⓘ [õũ̯]	nasalized goat (American) or saw (RP)

Resh § Arabic rāʾ

The letter is named rāʾ راء in Arabic. It is written in several ways depending on its position in the word:

Position in word:	Isolated	Final	Medial	Initial
Glyph form: (Help)	ر‎	ـر‎	ـر‎	ر‎

It ranges between an alveolar trill [r], an alveolar flap [ɾ], and a uvular trill [ʀ] (the last of which is only found in a few modern varieties). It is pronounced as a postalveolar approximant [ɹ̠] in the traditional dialect of Fes.^[1]

Derived letter in other languages

Position in word:	Isolated	Final	Medial	Initial
Glyph form: (Help)	ݛ‎	ـݛ‎	ـݛ‎	ݛ‎

The Unicode standard for Arabic scripts also lists a variant with a full stroke (Unicode character U+075b: ݛ), suggesting that this form is used in certain Northern and Western African languages and some dialects in Pakistan.^[2]

In the Pashto alphabet, a variant of the letter rāʾ uses a ring below for the retroflex consonant [ɭ̆~ɽ] and another uses dots above and below the tail for the voiced fricative [ʐ] or [ʝ]:

Position in word:	Isolated	Final	Medial	Initial
Glyph form: (Help)	ړ‎	ـړ‎	ـړ‎	ړ‎

Position in word:	Isolated	Final	Medial	Initial
Glyph form: (Help)	ږ‎	ـږ‎	ـږ‎	ږ‎

References

^ Hachimi, Atiqa (2012-05-23). "The urban and the urbane: Identities, language ideologies, and Arabic dialects in Morocco". Language in Society. 41 (3): 321–341. doi:10.1017/s0047404512000279. ISSN 0047-4045. S2CID 144607607.
^ Allen, Julie D.; Anderson, Deborah; et al. (eds.). The Unicode Standard, Version 6.2 (PDF). Unicode Consortium. p. 265.

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[:34-2] Hachimi, Atiqa (2012-05-23). "The urban and the urbane: Identities, language ideologies, and Arabic dialects in Morocco". Language in Society. 41 (3): 321–341. doi:10.1017/s0047404512000279. ISSN 0047-4045. S2CID 144607607.

[3] Allen, Julie D.; Anderson, Deborah; et al. (eds.). The Unicode Standard, Version 6.2 (PDF). Unicode Consortium. p. 265.

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