A voiced retroflex plosive or stop 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 extending from the bottom of a d, the letter that is used for the corresponding alveolar consonant. Many South Asian languages, such as Hindi and Urdu, have a two-way contrast between plain and murmured (breathy voice) .
Features
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Features of a voiced retroflex stop:
Occurrence
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="2" | Language !! Word !! IPA!! Meaning !! Notes
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| Asturian ||Astierna dialect|| || || 'tongue'|| Corresponds to in other dialects. See Che Vaqueira
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| colspan="2" | Balochi || <span style="font-size:120%;"></span>/dèl || || 'female donkey' ||
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| colspan="2" | Bengali || || || 'robber' || Apical postalveolar. || || || 'bone' || Subapical. || / || || 'to put' || Apical postalveolar.|| || || 'cart'|| Subapical; || || ||'late afternoon' || Realised as between vowels.
|}
See also
- African D
- Index of phonetics articles