voiced uvular fricative

Historically, this occurred so often with the voiced uvular fricative that it disappeared entirely from the language.

The voiced uvular fricative or approximant is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.

The grapheme above represents a voiced uvular fricative (the "r" in French "Paris").

Features of the voiced uvular fricative:

This includes the voiced uvular fricative, voiceless uvular fricative, and uvular trill.

Several other languages, including Inuktitut, Abkhaz language and some varieties of Arabic, have a voiced uvular fricative but do not treat it as a rhotic consonant.

Romani had a phonemic distinction between two /r/s - a flap and a voiced uvular fricative - which in Anglo-Romani has been lost and replaced by a single rolled /r/.

It may also occur as an allophone of another uvular consonant - in Kazakh, the voiced uvular stop is an allophone of the voiced uvular fricative after the velar nasal.

Standard Basque language uses a trill for /r/ (written as r-, -rr-, -r) but most speakers of the Lapurdian and Low Navarrese dialects use a voiced uvular fricative as in French.