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In Flanders it are mainly high-schooled women who speak with a uvular r, sometimes even pharyngeal. Men who have this r often switch to a rolling r from childhood, because it has the stigma of sounding 'feminine'.
The Flemish uvular r (which is a 'true uvular r') is more strongly pronounced than the one of the Netherlands, which is a very strange variant of it. You have several r's, and I won't describe them all. The most dominant one in the Netherlands is the 'Gooische r' (used in soaps and but also by news reporters). It's pronounced as an uvular r in front of a syllable and as an alveolar approximant r closing a syllable.
In Flanders, despite the uvular r gaining influence (on women especially), the alveolar trill is still considered the standard. News readers all use it, including women. Hosts of some shows sometimes use an uvular r however. Vice versa you also have Dutch hosts using the alveolar trill, that also exists.
In Flanders it are mainly high-schooled women who speak with a uvular r, sometimes even pharyngeal. Men who have this r often switch to a rolling r from childhood, because it has the stigma of sounding 'feminine'.
The Flemish uvular r (which is a 'true uvular r') is more strongly pronounced than the one of the Netherlands, which is a very strange variant of it. You have several r's, and I won't describe them all. The most dominant one in the Netherlands is the 'Gooische r' (used in soaps and but also by news reporters). It's pronounced as an uvular r in front of a syllable and as an alveolar approximant r closing a syllable.
In Flanders, despite the uvular r gaining influence (on women especially), the alveolar trill is still considered the standard. News readers all use it, including women. Hosts of some shows sometimes use an uvular r however. Vice versa you also have Dutch hosts using the alveolar trill, that also exists.