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The study of the abstract aspect of the sounds or *phonemes* in a given language.

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Any languages that consider the alveolar and uvular trill distinct consonant phonemes?

Besides the examples already listed by the previous answers, Sotho seems to be another language which has a phonemic contrast between the alveolar and the uvular trill. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S …
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What is the distribution of the French uvular trill vs uvular fricative?

In French, the most common realizations of the phoneme /r/ are [ʀ] (uvular trill) and [ʁ] (voiced uvular fricative). I am able to consistently distinguish them and produce either, and I'm interested i …
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