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The voiceless retroflex plosive is a type of Consonant al sound, used in some Spoken Language s. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is t`. Like all the Retroflex Consonant s, the IPA symbol is formed by adding a rightward pointing hook extending from the bottom of the symbol used for the equivalent Alveolar Consonant , in this case the Voiceless Alveolar Plosive which has the symbol t. If lowercase letter t in the font used already has a rightward pointing hook, then is distinguished from t by extending the righward pointing hook below the Baseline as a Descender . Compare t and . FEATURES Features of the voiceless retroflex plosive:
IN ENGLISH Standard English does not have the voiceless retroflex plosive. However, it is common in some dialects spoken by non-native speakers. For example, in India n English, the sound /t/ is often realized as {Link without Title} . This difference may be fairly hard for speakers of other varieties of English to detect. IN OTHER LANGUAGES Swedish In many dialects of Swedish (and Norwegian ), the combination 'rt' after a long vowel (e.g., ''mört'') may be pronounced as {Link without Title} . EXTERNAL LINKS SEE ALSO |
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