The voiced
retroflex implosive 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 w ...
al sound. It is not known to be phonemically distinct from alveolar in any language.
Sindhi
Sindhi may refer to:
*something from, or related to Sindh, a province of Pakistan
* Sindhi people, an ethnic group from the Sindh region
* Sindhi language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by them
People with the name
* Sarkash Sindhi (1940–2012 ...
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
IPA
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* India pale ale, a style of beer
* International Phonetic Alphabet, a system of phonetic notation
* Isopropyl alcohol, a chemical compound
IPA may also refer to:
Organizations International
* Insolvency Practitioners A ...
, 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
*
List of phonetics topics
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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
* Alveolar ej ...
References
External links
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Implosives
Central consonants
Retroflex consonants
Voiced oral consonants