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 , a letter r with a tail.
Features
Features of a voiced retroflex flap:
Occurrence
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="2" |Language!! Word !! IPA !! Meaning !! Notes
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| colspan="2" |Bengali
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| 'car'
| Apical postalveolar.
| North Brabant
| rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" | 'belt'
| rowspan="2" | A rare word-initial variant of . Realization of varies considerably among dialects. See Dutch phonology
|-
| Northern Netherlands
|-
| colspan="2" |Elfdalian
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| 'permission'
|
|-
| colspan="2" | Enga
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| 'shame'
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|-
| colspan="2" | Gokana
|
|
| 'we'
| Apical postalveolar. Allophone of , 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 instead.
| Hindi
|
| rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" |'big'
| rowspan="2" | Apical postalveolar; contrasts unaspirated and aspirated forms.
|
|
| 'rent'
| Apical postalveolar; postvocalic allophone of . See Nepali phonology
|-
| rowspan="2" | Norwegian
| Central dialects
| rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" | 'Vålerenga'
| rowspan="2" | Allophone of and . In Urban East Norwegian it often alternates with the alveolar , save for a small number of words. See Norwegian phonology
|-
| Eastern dialects
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| 'car'
| Apical postalveolar; postvocalic allophone of .
|
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| 'to speak'
| rowspan="3" | Allophone of . See Portuguese phonology
|-
| Brazilian caipira speakers
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| 'wood'
|-
| Some sertanejo speakers
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| 'to guffaw'
|-
| rowspan="2" | Punjabi
| Gurmukhi
|
| rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" | 'horse'
| rowspan="2" |
|-
| Shahmukhi
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|-
| Scottish Gaelic
| Lewis
|
|
| 'said'
| Possible realisation of .
|-
| colspan="2" | Shipibo
|
|
| 'to break'
| Apical postalveolar; possible realization of . See Swedish phonology
|-
| colspan="2"| Tamil
| /
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| 'country'
| Intervocalic and word-medial allophone of . See Tamil phonology
|-
| colspan="2" | Telugu
|
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| 'grief'
| Allophone of .
|-
|Tukano
|Ye’pâ-Masa
|petâ-de
|
|'(relative to the) port'
|Realisation of in certain positions. Nasalised in nasal contexts.
| colspan="2" align="center" |
| 'your father'
|
|-
|colspan="2"| Warlpiri
|
|
| 'sleep'
| Transcribes as .
|-
| colspan="2" |Yidiny
| colspan="2" align="center" |
|'tablelands'
|
|}
Voiced retroflex nasal flap
Features
Features of a retroflex nasal tap or flap:
Occurrence
{|class=wikitable
!Language
!Word
!IPA
!Meaning
!Notes
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| Hindi || || || ||Allophone of when not in clusters
|-
| Ndrumbea
|broad transcription|
|narrow transcription|
|'to run'
|Allophone of before a nasal vowel
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| Kangri
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See also
- Index of phonetics articles