Ŕ

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

Latin letter R with acute

Slovak

In Slovak ⟨ŕ⟩ is used to represent /r̩ː/, the geminate syllabic alveolar trill.

Lower Sorbian

It is used in Lower Sorbian to represent /rʲ/, the palatalised alveolar trill.

Basque

In Sabino Arana's orthography[1] of the Basque language, ⟨ŕ⟩ was used for the /r/ contrasting with ⟨r⟩ which was used for /ɾ/. However, in the standard Basque alphabet, /r/ is represented with ⟨r⟩ in syllable-final positions and ⟨rr⟩ between vowels.

See also

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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