↑The French rhotic is different from region to region, though it is often uvular (especially in Northern France). The more common pronunciations include a voiced uvular fricative ([ʁ]) and a uvular trill ([ʀ])
↑often replaced by [ɛ]; not found in standard French
↑In French, /ə/ is pronounced with some lip rounding; for a number of speakers, it is also more front and may even be phonetically identical to the vowel of sœur.