Ŕ

Ŕ (minuscule: ŕ) is a letter of the Slovak and Lower Sorbian alphabets. It is formed from R with the addition of an acute. Their Unicode codepoints are U+0154 Ŕ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R WITH ACUTE (HTML Ŕ · Ŕ) and U+0155 ŕ LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH ACUTE (HTML ŕ · ŕ). The PostScript names are Racute and racute.

Slovak

It is used in Slovak to represent the geminate syllabic r, IPA: [ r̩ː ].

Lower Sorbian

It is used in Lower Sorbian to represent the palatalised r, IPA: [ rʲ ].

Basque

In Sabino Arana's orthography[1] of the Basque language, ŕ was used for the trill consonant. However, in the standard Basque alphabet, r is used in syllable-final positions and rr between vowels.

gollark: I thought you managed to use your 1337 h4xx0r skills to find it anyway?
gollark: It works on my phone, but *not* on another Firefox on Linux install which isn't signed into my account.
gollark: Link to what?
gollark: Until I manage to resolve the websocket issue, I can only manage osmarks internet radio™ from Chromium or my phone. Sad.
gollark: Also the <:transistor:717746226925404181>.

See also
  • Ř
  • Rz (digraph)

References
  1. Lecciones de ortografía del euskera bizkaino, page 32, Arana eta Goiri'tar Sabin, Bilbao, Bizkaya'ren Edestija ta Izkerea Pizkundia, 1896 (Sebastián de Amorrortu).
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