Voiced retroflex flap

Retroflex nasal flap
Retroflex nasal flap
ɽ̃

Voiced retroflex flap
Voiced retroflex flap
ɽ
IPA number	125
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Entity (decimal)	ɽ
Unicode (hex)	U+027D
X-SAMPA	r`
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A voiced retroflex flap is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ɽ⟩, a letter r with a tail.

Features

Features of a voiced retroflex flap:

Its manner of articulation is tap or flap, which means it is produced with a single contraction of the muscles so that one articulator (usually the tongue) is thrown against another.
Its place of articulation is retroflex, which prototypically means it is articulated subapical (with the tip of the tongue curled up), but more generally, it means that it is postalveolar without being palatalized. That is, besides the prototypical subapical articulation, the tongue can be apical (pointed) or, in some fricatives, laminal (flat).
Its phonation is voiced, which means the vocal cords vibrate during the articulation.
It is an oral consonant, which means that air is not allowed to escape through the nose.
It is a median consonant, which means it is produced by directing the airstream down the midline of the tongue, rather than to the sides.
Its airstream mechanism is pulmonic, which means it is articulated by pushing air only with the intercostal muscles and abdominal muscles, as in most speech sounds.

Occurrence

Language		Word	IPA	Meaning	Notes
Bengali		গাড়ি	[ɡaɽi]	'car'	Apical postalveolar. See Bengali phonology
Dutch	North Brabant	riem	[ɽim]	'belt'	A rare word-initial variant of /r/. Realization of /r/ varies considerably among dialects. See Dutch phonology
Dutch	Northern Netherlands	riem	[ɽim]	'belt'
Elfdalian		luv	[ɽʏːv]	'permission'
Enga		yála	[jɑɽɑ]	'shame'
Gokana		bele	[beːɽeː]	'we'	Apical postalveolar. Allophone of /l/, medially between vowels within the morpheme, and finally in the morpheme before a following vowel in the same word. It can be a postalveolar trill or simply [l] instead.
Hausa		bara	[bəɽä]	'servant'	Represented in Arabic script with ⟨ر⟩
Hindustani	Hindi	बड़ा	[bəɽäː]^ⓘ	'big'	Apical postalveolar; contrasts unaspirated and aspirated forms. See Hindustani phonology
Hindustani	Urdu	بڑا	[bəɽäː]^ⓘ	'big'
Kashmiri		لٔڑکہٕ	[ləɽkɨ]	'boy'
Nepali		भाड़ा	[bʱäɽä]	'rent'	Apical postalveolar; postvocalic allophone of /ɖ, ɖʱ/. See Nepali phonology
Norwegian	Central dialects	klorte	[ˈkʰɽûːʈə̌]	'scratched'	Allophone of /l/ and /r/. In Urban East Norwegian it often alternates with the alveolar [ɾ], save for a small number of words. See Norwegian phonology
Norwegian	Eastern dialects	klorte	[ˈkʰɽûːʈə̌]	'scratched'
Odia		ଗାଡ଼ି	[ɡäɽiː]	'car'	Apical postalveolar; postvocalic allophone of /ɖ, ɖʱ/.
Parkari Koli		ۿُونَواڙ	[ɦuːnaʋaːɽ]	'desolate, deserted'
Portuguese	Some European speakers	falar	[fɐˈläɽ]	'to speak'	Allophone of /ɾ/. See Portuguese phonology
	Brazilian caipira speakers	madeira	[mäˈd̪eɽə]	'wood'
	Some sertanejo speakers	gargalhar	[ɡäɽɡäˈʎäɽ]	'to guffaw'
Punjabi	Gurmukhi	ਘੋੜਾ	[k̠òːɽaː]^ⓘ	'horse'
Punjabi	Shahmukhi	گھوڑا	[k̠òːɽaː]^ⓘ	'horse'
Scottish Gaelic	Lewis	thuirt	[hʉɽʈ]	'said'	Possible realisation of /rˠ/.
Shipibo		roro	[ˈɽo̽ɽo̽]	'to break'	Apical postalveolar; possible realization of /r/.
Swedish	Some dialects	flagga	[ˈfɽagː˦˥˩ˌa˦˥˩]^ⓘ	'[a] flag'	Allophone of retroflexed /rd/ ([ɖ]) and (single) /l/, the former especially after labials, velars or long vowels. See Swedish phonology
Tamil		நாடு / نَاڊُ	[naːɽɯ]^ⓘ	'country'	Intervocalic and word-medial allophone of /ʈ/. See Tamil phonology
Telugu		గోడు	[goːɽu]^ⓘ	'grief'	Allophone of /ɖ/.
Tukano	Ye’pâ-Masa	petâ-de	[pɛ̀ɛ̥̀táɽɛ᷆]	'(relative to the) port'	Realisation of ⟨d⟩ in certain positions. Nasalised [ɽ͂] in nasal contexts.
Wapishana		[pɨɖaɽɨ]		'your father'
Warlpiri		jarda	[caɽa]	'sleep'	Transcribes /ɽ/ as ⟨rd⟩.
Yele		kââdî	[kɑːɽɯ]	'sun'	Allophone of /ʈ/ between vowels.
Yidiny		[gambi:ɽ]		'tablelands'

Voiced retroflex nasal flap

Features

Features of a retroflex nasal tap or flap:

Its manner of articulation is tap or flap, which means it is produced with a single contraction of the muscles so that one articulator (usually the tongue) is thrown against another.
Its place of articulation is retroflex, which prototypically means it is articulated subapical (with the tip of the tongue curled up), but more generally, it means that it is postalveolar without being palatalized. That is, besides the prototypical subapical articulation, the tongue can be apical (pointed) or, in some fricatives, laminal (flat).
Its phonation is voiced, which means the vocal cords vibrate during the articulation.
It is a nasal consonant, which means air is exclusively allowed to escape through the nose for nasal stops; otherwise, in addition to through the mouth.
It is a median consonant, which means it is produced by directing the airstream down the midline of the tongue, rather than to the sides.
Its airstream mechanism is pulmonic, which means it is articulated by pushing air only with the intercostal muscles and abdominal muscles, as in most speech sounds.

Occurrence

Language	Word	IPA	Meaning	Notes
Hindi	गणेश Gaṇeśa	[ɡəɽ̃eːʃ]	'Ganesha'	Allophone of /ɳ/ when not in clusters
Ndrumbea		[t̠áɽ̃ã́ɻ̃ẽ]	'to run'	Allophone of /ɽ/ before a nasal vowel
Kangri	न्ह़ौणा	[nɔ̌ɽ̃ɑ]	'to bathe'	Contrasts with /ɽ/.

Notes

1 2 Mazumdar (2000:57)
↑ Goeman & van de Velde (2001:91, 94–95, 97, 101, 107)
↑ Verstraten & van de Velde (2001:50–51, 53–55)
1 2 Goeman & van de Velde (2001:107)
↑ Goeman & van de Velde (2001:95, 97, 101, 107)
↑ Verstraten & van de Velde (2001:50–51, 53–54)
↑ Verstraten & van de Velde (2001:54)
1 2 L.F. Brosnahan. "Outlines of the phonology of the Gokana dialect of Ogoni" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-04-03. Retrieved 2013-11-24.
1 2 Tiwari (2004:?)
↑ Khatiwada (2009:377)
↑ Khatiwada (2009:374)
1 2 3 Heide (2010:3–44)
1 2 3 Kristoffersen (2000:24)
1 2 Masica (1991:107)
↑ Lista das marcas dialetais e ouros fenómenos de variação (fonética e fonológica) identificados nas amostras do Arquivo Dialetal do CLUP (in Portuguese)
↑ (in Portuguese) Acoustic-phonetic characteristics of the Brazilian Portuguese's retroflex /r/: data from respondents in Pato Branco, Paraná Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine. Irineu da Silva Ferraz. Pages 19–21
↑ (in Portuguese) Syllable coda /r/ in the "capital" of the paulista hinterland: sociolinguistic analysis Archived 2013-09-26 at the Wayback Machine. Cândida Mara Britto LEITE. Page 111 (page 2 in the attached PDF)
↑ (in Portuguese) Rhotic consonants in the speech of three municipalities of Rio de Janeiro: Petrópolis, Itaperuna and Paraty Archived 2017-10-11 at the Wayback Machine. Pages 22 and 23.
↑ Bashir, Elena; J. Conners, Thomas (2019). "3.3.1". A Descriptive Grammar of Hindko, Panjabi, and Saraiki. Vol. 4 of Mouton-CASL Grammar Series. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. p. 24. ISBN 9781614512257.
1 2 Valenzuela, Márquez Pinedo & Maddieson (2001:282)
↑ Andersson, Erik (2002), "Swedish", in König, Ekkehard; van der Auwera, Johan (eds.), The Germanic Languages, Routledge language family descriptions, Routledge, pp. 273–4, ISBN 0-415-28079-6
1 2 Ramirez (2019:22)
↑ dos Santos (2006:34)
↑ Dixon, R.M.W (1977). A Grammar of Yidiɲ. London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-521-14242-7.
↑ Gordon, Matthew; Maddieson, Ian (October 1995). "The phonetics of Ndumbea". UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics (91): 25–44.
↑ Eaton 2008, p. 32.

References

dos Santos, Manoel Gomes (2006), Uma gramática do Wapixana (Aruak): aspectos da fonologia, da morfologia e da sintaxe (PhD thesis), Campinas: University of Campinas, doi:10.47749/T/UNICAMP.2006.368861, hdl:20.500.12733/1602812
Eaton, Robert D. (May 2008), Kangri in Context: An Areal Perspective (PhD dissertation), Arlington: University of Texas, hdl:10106/945
Goeman, Ton; van de Velde, Hans (2001), "Co-occurrence constraints on /r/ and /ɣ/ in Dutch dialects", in van de Velde, Hans; van Hout, Roeland (eds.), 'r-atics, Brussels: Etudes & Travaux, pp. 91–112, ISSN 0777-3692
Heide, Eldar (2010), "Tjukk l – Retroflektert tydeleggjering av kort kvantitet. Om kvalitetskløyvinga av det gamle kvantitetssystemet.", Maal og Minne (in Norwegian), 1, Novus forlag
Khatiwada, Rajesh (2009), "Nepali", Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 39 (3): 337–380, doi:10.1017/s0025100309990181
Kristoffersen, Gjert (2000), The Phonology of Norwegian, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-823765-5
Labrune, Laurence (2012), The Phonology of Japanese, Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-954583-4
Mazumdar, Bijaychandra (2000) [First published 1920], The history of the Bengali language, New Delhi: Asian Educational Services, ISBN 8120614526
Okada, Hideo (1999), "Japanese", in International Phonetic Association (ed.), Handbook of the International Phonetic Association: A Guide to the Use of the International Phonetic Alphabet, Cambridge University Press, pp. 117–119, ISBN 978-0-52163751-0
Ramirez, Henri (2019), A Fala Tukano dos Ye'pâ-Masa: Tomo I, Porto Velho: CEDEM
Tiwari, Bholanath (2004) [First published 1966], Hindī Bhāshā, Kitāb Mahal: Kitāb Mahal, ISBN 81-225-0017-X
Valenzuela, Pilar M.; Márquez Pinedo, Luis; Maddieson, Ian (2001), "Shipibo", Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 31 (2): 281–285, doi:10.1017/S0025100301002109
Vance, Timothy J. (2008), The Sounds of Japanese, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-5216-1754-3
Verstraten, Bart; van de Velde, Hans (2001), "Socio-geographical variation of /r/ in standard Dutch", in van de Velde, Hans; van Hout, Roeland (eds.), 'r-atics, Brussels: Etudes & Travaux, pp. 45–61, ISSN 0777-3692
Masica, Colin (1991), The Indo-Aryan Languages, Cambridge Language Surveys, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-29944-2

External links

List of languages with [ɽ] on PHOIBLE

[mazumdar-1] 1 2 Mazumdar (2000:57)

[2] Goeman & van de Velde (2001:91, 94–95, 97, 101, 107)

[3] Verstraten & van de Velde (2001:50–51, 53–55)

[GoVan107-4] 1 2 Goeman & van de Velde (2001:107)

[5] Goeman & van de Velde (2001:95, 97, 101, 107)

[6] Verstraten & van de Velde (2001:50–51, 53–54)

[7] Verstraten & van de Velde (2001:54)

[brosnahan-8] 1 2 L.F. Brosnahan. "Outlines of the phonology of the Gokana dialect of Ogoni" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-04-03. Retrieved 2013-11-24.

[tiwari-9] 1 2 Tiwari (2004:?)

[10] Khatiwada (2009:377)

[khatiwada374-11] Khatiwada (2009:374)

[heide-12] 1 2 3 Heide (2010:3–44)

[kristoffersen-13] 1 2 3 Kristoffersen (2000:24)

[masica-14] 1 2 Masica (1991:107)

[15] Lista das marcas dialetais e ouros fenómenos de variação (fonética e fonológica) identificados nas amostras do Arquivo Dialetal do CLUP (in Portuguese)

[16] (in Portuguese) Acoustic-phonetic characteristics of the Brazilian Portuguese's retroflex /r/: data from respondents in Pato Branco, Paraná Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine. Irineu da Silva Ferraz. Pages 19–21

[17] (in Portuguese) Syllable coda /r/ in the "capital" of the paulista hinterland: sociolinguistic analysis Archived 2013-09-26 at the Wayback Machine. Cândida Mara Britto LEITE. Page 111 (page 2 in the attached PDF)

[18] (in Portuguese) Rhotic consonants in the speech of three municipalities of Rio de Janeiro: Petrópolis, Itaperuna and Paraty Archived 2017-10-11 at the Wayback Machine. Pages 22 and 23.

[19] Bashir, Elena; J. Conners, Thomas (2019). "3.3.1". A Descriptive Grammar of Hindko, Panjabi, and Saraiki. Vol. 4 of Mouton-CASL Grammar Series. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. p. 24. ISBN 9781614512257.

[val282-20] 1 2 Valenzuela, Márquez Pinedo & Maddieson (2001:282)

[21] Andersson, Erik (2002), "Swedish", in König, Ekkehard; van der Auwera, Johan (eds.), The Germanic Languages, Routledge language family descriptions, Routledge, pp. 273–4, ISBN 0-415-28079-6

[:0-22] 1 2 Ramirez (2019:22)

[23] s Santos (2006:34)

[24] Dixon, R.M.W (1977). A Grammar of Yidiɲ. London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-521-14242-7.

[25] Gordon, Matthew; Maddieson, Ian (October 1995). "The phonetics of Ndumbea". UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics (91): 25–44.

[FOOTNOTEEaton200832-26] Eaton 2008, p. 32.

v t e The letter R
General	Rhotic consonants (R-like sounds) Perception of English /r/ and /l/ by Japanese speakers Pronunciation of English /r/ Rhoticity in English R-colored vowel Rhotacism Guttural R Linking and intrusive R
Pronunciations	Voiceless alveolar trill [r̥] Voiced alveolar trill [r] Voiced alveolar or postalveolar approximant [ɹ] Voiceless alveolar tap [ɾ̥] Voiced alveolar tap [ɾ] Voiced alveolar lateral flap [ɺ] Voiced retroflex approximant [ɻ] Voiced retroflex flap [ɽ] Voiced retroflex trill [ɽr] Voiced velar approximant [ɰ] Voiced velar bunched approximant [ɹ̈] Voiceless velar fricative [x] Voiced velar fricative [ɣ] Voiceless uvular trill [ʀ̥] Voiced uvular trill [ʀ] Voiceless uvular fricative [χ] Voiced uvular fricative [ʁ] Voiced pharyngeal fricative [ʕ] Voiceless glottal fricative [h] Voiced glottal fricative [ɦ]
Variations	Ꝛꝛ (R rotunda) Ꞃꞃ (Insular) Ɽɽ (R with tail) Ɍɍ (R with stroke) Ʀʀ Ȑȑ Ŕŕ Ŗŗ Řř Ȓȓ R̃r̃ Ṙṙ Ṛṛ R̄r̄ Ṝṝ Ṟṟ Rd Rh Rl Rm Rn Rp Rr Rs Rt Rw Rz Rnd ᚱ (Raidô) ℝ (Real number) ® (Registered trademark symbol) Ⓡ (Enclosed R) ℞ (Medical prescription)

Voiced retroflex flap

Features

Occurrence

Voiced retroflex nasal flap

Features

Occurrence

See also

Notes

References

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