Ř

Ř in upper- and lowercase

The grapheme Ř, ř (R with háček, example of Czech pronunciation:  "řeka" ) is a letter used in the alphabets of Czech, Silesian, Upper Sorbian, and Riffian Berber. The pronunciation in these languages is different.

Usage

In Czech it is used to denote [r̝], a raised alveolar non-sonorant trill. Its manner of articulation is similar to other alveolar trills but the tongue is raised; it is partially fricative. It is usually voiced, [r̝], but it also has a voiceless allophone [r̝̊] occurring in the vicinity of voiceless consonants.

In Upper Sorbian, it denotes the voiceless postalveolar fricative [ʃ].

In Silesian, it denotes the voiced retroflex fricative [ʐ], devoiced to [ʂ] in the vicinity of voiceless consonants.

Tongue twister

Czech: “Třista třicet tři stříbrných stříkaček stříkalo přes třista třicet tři stříbrných střech.”

Phonetically: [ˈtr̝̊ɪsta ˈtr̝̊ɪt͡sɛt ˈtr̝̊ɪ ˈstr̝̊iːbr̩niːx ˈstr̝̊iːkat͡ʃɛk ˈstr̝̊iːkalo pr̝̊ɛs ˈtr̝̊ɪsta ˈtr̝̊ɪt͡sɛt ˈtr̝̊ɪ ˈstr̝̊iːbr̩niːx ˈstr̝̊ɛx].

English: “333 silver fire engines spurted water over 333 silver roofs”.

See also

• Czech alphabet
• Sorbian alphabet

The ISO basic Latin alphabet
Aa	Bb	Cc	Dd	Ee	Ff	Gg	Hh	Ii	Jj	Kk	Ll	Mm	Nn	Oo	Pp	Qq	Rr	Ss	Tt	Uu	Vv	Ww	Xx	Yy	Zz
Letter R with diacritics
Ŕŕ	Řř	Ṙṙ	Ŗŗ	Ȑȑ	Ȓȓ	Ṛṛ	Ṝṝ	Ṟṟ	Ɍɍ	Ɽɽ	ᵲ	ᶉ	ɼ	ɾ	ᵳ
Letters using caron sign ( ◌̌ )
Ǎǎ	Čč	Ďď	Ěě	Ǧǧ	Ȟȟ	Ǐ ǐ	J̌ǰ	Ǩǩ	Ľľ	Ňň	Ǒǒ	Řř	Šš	Ťť	Ǔǔ	Žž	Ǯǯ
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