流りゅう音おん

noun, noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

liquid sound

In phonetics, a class of consonants that includes laterals (like 'l') and rhotics (like 'r'). The term is technical and used in linguistics.

• 日本にほん語ごの「ら行ぎょう」の子し音いんは流りゅう音おんに分ぶん類るいされる。

  The consonants of the Japanese 'ra' row are classified as liquid sounds.