Rhotic Explained

Rhotic is a term in linguistics which may refer to:

• Rhotic consonant, liquid consonants such as the pronounced as /[ɹ]/ sound in red
• R-colored vowel, a vowel that is modified in a way that lowers the third formant, such as the pronounced as /[ɝ]/ sound in Midwestern American English pronunciation of fur
  • Erhua, a phonological process that, in Standard Chinese and other Sinitic languages, adds R-coloring to the final of a syllable

See also

• Rhoticism (disambiguation)
• Rhotacism
• Rhoticity in English, English accents that keep pronounced as //r// or lose it in some cases