The voiced labial–retroflex nasal 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, except for the h sound, which is pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract. Examples are and pronou ...

al sound used in the

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. It is a and pronounced simultaneously. 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 standard written representation ...

that represents this sound is . Para-IPA is also seen.

Features

Features of the voiceless labial–retroflex plosive are:

Occurrence

References

{{phonetics-stub Labial–coronal consonants Doubly articulated consonants Pulmonic consonants Labial–retroflex consonants