Guttural R - Rhotic-agnostic Guttural Consonants Written As ⟨r⟩

Rhotic-agnostic Guttural Consonants Written As ⟨r⟩

There are languages where certain indigenous guttural consonants came to be orthographized with ⟨r⟩, giving the superficial appearance of a guttural R that may have never actually functioned as a true rhotic consonant.

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