rhotics (was: Hellenish oddities)

Keith Alasdair Mylchreest wrote on how to trill r's:

>Try saying [tr] or perhaps [tDr], I think that's how I finally got there.
That won't help those many Americans whose /tr/ and /dr/ are in fact [.t.s]
and [.d.z], i.e. retroflex affricates...

I understand that I'm fortunate to be a native speaker of a language which
has several allophones of /r/ -- apical, uvular, taps, trills, fricatives,
approximants -- in idiolectal and dialectal variation, tho truth to say the
"weaker" variants predominate.  Since childhood I can manage a broad range
of these allophones, tho alveolar tap and retroflex approximant predominate
in my own ordinary speech, distributed according to rather consistent
rules: pre- and inter-vocalic /r/ is the tap, and post-vocalic is the
approximant.

I wonder how widespread lgs with more than one "r" phoneme are?  Spanish is
famous for its r/rr, Portuguese and Occitan have r/R, but beyond
that?  What about people's conlangs?  Wanic has a slew of laterals but only
one rhotic.

/ B.Philip Jonsson B^)>
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