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 ...

Features

Features of the voiceless retroflex trill:

Occurrence

Notes

References

* {{LetterR Retroflex consonants Trill consonants Pulmonic consonants Voiceless oral consonants Central consonants