The voiceless retroflex flap or tap is a sound that has been reported to occur as a dialectal realization of in the Dhivehi language. The symbol in the

International Phonetic Alphabet The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script. It was devised by the International Phonetic Association in the late 19th century as a standardized representation ...

that represents this sound is , and the equivalent

X-SAMPA The Extended Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet (X-SAMPA) is a variant of SAMPA developed in 1995 by John C. Wells, professor of phonetics at University College London. It is designed to unify the individual language SAMPA alphabets, a ...

symbol is r`_0.

Features

Features of the voiceless retroflex flap:

Occurrence

Notes

References

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* {{LetterR Retroflex consonants Tap and flap consonants Pulmonic consonants Voiceless oral consonants Central consonants