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Wintu is another language with a reported (apico-)retroflex trill where the tongue apex "approaches" the hard palate (this is not sub-apical as in Toda). The trill has a retroflex flap allophone occurring in intervocalic position.

Several languages have been reported to have trilled retroflex affricates such as and , including Mapudungun , Malagasy , and Fijian . However, the exact articulation is seldomly clear from the descriptions. In Fijian, for example, further investigation revealed that the sound (written ''dr'') is seldom trilled, usually realized as a postalveolar stop instead. In Mapudungun, the sound (written ''tr'') is strongly retroflex, causing /l/ and /r/ following the subsequent vowel to become retroflex as well. In the southern dialect it varies between and , but it is not clear whether the symbol represents a trill or a non-sibilant fricative.


BIBLIOGRAPHY


  • Pitkin, Harvey. (1984). ''Wintu grammar''. University of California publications in linguistics (Vol. 94). Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-5200-9612-6.