The voiced
retroflex
A retroflex (Help:IPA/English, /ˈɹɛtʃɹoːflɛks/), apico-domal (Help:IPA/English, /əpɪkoːˈdɔmɪnəl/), or cacuminal () consonant is a coronal consonant where the tongue has a flat, concave, or even curled shape, and is articulated betw ...
implosive
Implosive consonants are a group of stop consonants (and possibly also some affricates) with a mixed glottalic ingressive and pulmonic egressive airstream mechanism.''Phonetics for communication disorders.'' Martin J. Ball and Nicole Müller. Ro ...
is a type of
consonant
In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract. Examples are and pronounced with the lips; and pronounced with the front of the tongue; and pronounced wit ...
al sound. It is not known to be phonemically distinct from alveolar in any language.
Sindhi has an implosive that varies between dental and retroflex articulation, while
Oromo,
Saraiki and
Ngad'a have but not .
The symbol for this,
(a D with a tail for retroflex and a hook-top for implosive), is not "explicitly" approved by the
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, but is mentioned in the IPA ''Handbook''.
[''Handbook of the International Phonetic Association'', 1999, p. 166, 179.]
Features
Features of the voiced retroflex implosive:
Occurrence
See also
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* Acoustic phonetics
* Active articulator
* Affricate
* Airstream mechanism
* Alexander John Ellis
* Alexander Melville Bell
* Alfred C. Gimson
* Allophone
* Alveolar approximant ()
* Alveolar click ()
* Alveolar consonant
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References
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