The voiceless retroflex trill is a sound that has been reported to occur as an allophone of in the
Maldivian language.
Although the tongue starts out in a sub-apical retroflex position, trilling involves the tip of the tongue and causes it to move forward to the alveolar ridge; this means that the retroflex trill gives a preceding vowel retroflex coloration the way other retroflex consonants do, but the vibration itself is not much different from an
alveolar trill
The voiced alveolar trill is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents dental, alveolar, and postalveolar trills is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is ...
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Features
Features of the voiceless retroflex trill:
Occurrence
Notes
References
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Retroflex consonants
Trill consonants
Pulmonic consonants
Voiceless oral consonants
Central consonants