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[Nila Friedberg]

>One the other side, Jewish Russian speakers are
> said to use the velar
> >[r] more often.

Did you mean  that some Jewish Russian speakers
use a UVULAR  /R/? In the
International Phonetic Alphabet chart (see Ladefoged,
"A course in phonetics") velar 'r' does not exist, but uvular R does.

Best wishes,

Nila Friedberg
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of California, Los Angeles

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