A voiced retroflex nasal is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is .
Like all the retroflex consonants, the IPA symbol is formed by adding a rightward-pointing hook (right-tail) extending from the bottom of , the letter used for the corresponding alveolar consonant. It is similar to , the letter for the palatal nasal, which has a leftward-pointing hook (left-tail) extending from the bottom of the left stem, and to , the letter for the velar nasal, which has a leftward-pointing hook extending from the bottom of the right stem.
Features
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Features of a voiced retroflex nasal:
Occurrence
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="2"|Language !! Word !! IPA!! Meaning !! Notes
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| colspan="2" | Bengali || || || || Rare; occurs in the extreme western dialects
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| colspan="2" | Enindhilyagwa|| || || 'snake'||
|-
| colspan="2" | Faroese|| || || 'eagle'||
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| colspan="2" | Hindi || / || || 'cold' ||
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| colspan="2" | Kannada|| / || || 'dam'||
|-
| rowspan="2" | Khanty || Eastern dialects|| rowspan="2" | || rowspan="2" | || rowspan="2" | 'large' || rowspan="2" |
|-
| Some northern dialects
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| colspan="2" | Malayalam|| / || || 'jaw'||
|-
| colspan="2" | Marathi || / || || 'arrow'|| Often realized as a flap in intervocalic and word-final positions. See Marathi phonology
|-
|colspan="2" | Nepali || /|||| 'egg'|| See Nepali phonology
|-
| colspan="2" | Norwegian || || || 'yarn'|| See Norwegian phonology
|-
| colspan="2" | Odia || / || || 'myna bird' ||
|-
| colspan="2" | Pashto || / |||| 'Attan' ||
|-
| rowspan="2" | Punjabi
| Gurmukhi
| /
| rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" | 'old'
| rowspan="2" |
|-
| Shahmukhi
| /
|-
| Scottish Gaelic || Lewis || || || 'hell' || Dialectal realisation of .
|-
| Swedish || Central Standard || || || 'yarn'|| See Swedish phonology
|-
| colspan="2" | Tamil|| / || || 'male'|| See Tamil phonology
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| colspan="2" | Telugu|| / || || 'murmur'|| Occurs as allophone of anuswara when followed by Voiced retroflex plosives.
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| colspan="2" | Vietnamese || |||| 'you pay'|| Allophone of before in Saigon dialect. See Vietnamese phonology
|}
See also
- Index of phonetics articles