Ŕ Explained

Ŕ (minuscule: ŕ) is a letter of the Lower Sorbian and Slovak alphabets, Ukrainian Latin alphabet and Proto-Turkic orthography. It is formed from R with the addition of an acute. Their Unicode codepoints are and . The PostScript names are and .

Slovak

In Slovak (ŕ) is used to represent pronounced as //r̩ː//, the geminate syllabic alveolar trill.

Lower Sorbian

It is used in Lower Sorbian to represent pronounced as //rʲ//, the palatalised alveolar trill.

Basque

In Sabino Arana's orthography[1] of the Basque language, (ŕ) was used for the pronounced as /link/ contrasting with (r) which was used for pronounced as /link/.However, in the standard Basque alphabet, pronounced as //r// is represented with (r) in syllable-final positions and (rr) between vowels.

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Notes and References

  1. Lecciones de ortografía del euskera bizkaino, page 32, Arana eta Goiri'tar Sabin, Bilbao, Bizkaya'ren Edestija ta Izkerea Pizkundia, 1896 (Sebastián de Amorrortu).