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Retroflex ejective stop

Consonantal sound

Summary

Consonantal sound

Field	Value
ipa symbol	ʈʼ
x-sampa	t`_
imagefile	IPA Unicode 0x0288+0x02BC.svg

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A retroflex ejective is a rare consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is .

Features

Features of a retroflex ejective stop:

Occurrence

Language	Word	IPA	Meaning	Notes
English	Indian	beet		'beet'
Yokuts	Wukchumni	ṭʼa∙yʼ		'down feather'

References

Gamble, Geoffrey. (1978). "Wikchamni Grammar". University of California Publications in Linguistics, 89.

Wikipedia Source

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