Rhotic consonant
"R" CONSONANTS; A TYPE OF LIQUID CONSONANT
Rhotics; Rhoticity in German
In phonetics, rhotic consonants, or "R-like" sounds, are liquid consonants that are traditionally represented orthographically by symbols derived from the Greek letter rho, including , in the Latin script and , in the Cyrillic script. They are transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet by upper- or lower-case variants of Roman , : , , , , , , , and .