Rhois the name of the Greek letter <ϱ>, corresponding to the Latin letter . Rhotics, a loanword from Latinrhotica, are thus r‐like sounds. The use of the classificatory termrhoticfrom the beginning of Latin grammar to present‐day linguistics implies the existence of a class of such sounds. However, the fact that this class is named by referring to a particular letter of the alphabet is telling, as will be discussed below. Languages or dialects displaying some variant of the phoneme /r/ in contexts where other closely related languages or dialects do not show this sound (such as syllable‐final position in Irish English in comparison to Standard British English) are also sometimes called rhotic languages or dialects, as opposed to non‐rhotic ones.
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