| | Uvular consonant -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | Uvular consonants are found in many African and Middle-Eastern languages, most notably (The Semitic language of the Arabs; spoken in a variety of dialects) Arabic, and in (Any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived) Native American languages. |
 | | The Three Uvular Rs The uvular (A note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it) trill is used in (A resident of Paris) Parisian French and certain (The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people) dialects of Arabic for the letter . |
 | | The voiced uvular fricative is much more common in (The northernmost countries of Europe) northern Europe: it is found in many French dialects as the usual value of the letter R. (The Romance language spoken in Portugal and Brazil) Portuguese uses it as a trill. |
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