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Voiced retroflex flap

Consonantal sound represented by ⟨ɽ⟩ in IPA

Summary

Consonantal sound represented by ⟨ɽ⟩ in IPA

Field	Value
ipa symbol	ɽ
ipa number	125
decimal	637
x-sampa	r`
braille	256
braille2	r
imagefile	IPA Unicode 0x027D.svg

| x-sampa = r`

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

Language	Word	IPA	Meaning	Notes
Bengali	গাড়ি		'car'	Apical postalveolar. See Bengali phonology
Dutch	Goeman	van de Velde	2001	p=107}}	riem		'belt'
Verstraten	van de Velde	2001	p=54}}
Elfdalian	luv		'permission'
Enga	yála		'shame'
Gokana	bele		'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.
Hausa	bara		'servant'	Represented in Arabic script with
Hindustani	Hindi	बड़ा		'big'
Urdu	بڑا
Nepali	भाड़ा		'rent'	Apical postalveolar; postvocalic allophone of . See Nepali phonology
Norwegian	Heide	2010	pp=3–44}}	Vål[']erenga		'Vålerenga'
Eastern dialects
Odia	ଗାଡ଼ି		'car'	Apical postalveolar; postvocalic allophone of .
Parkari Koli	{{script/Arabic	ۿُونَواڙ}}		'desolate, deserted'
Portuguese	Some European speakers	falar		'to speak'
Brazilian caipira speakers	madeira		'wood'
Some sertanejo speakers	gargalhar		'to guffaw'
Punjabi	Gurmukhi	ਘੋੜਾ		'horse'
Shahmukhi	گھوڑا
Scottish Gaelic	Lewis	thuirt		'said'
Shipibo	roro		'to break'	Apical postalveolar; possible realization of .
Swedish	Some dialects	flagga		'[a] flag'
Tamil	நாடு / {{script/Arabic	نَاڊُ}}		'country'	Intervocalic and word-medial allophone of . See Tamil phonology
Telugu	గోడు		'grief'	Allophone of .
Tukano	Ye’pâ-Masa	petâ-de		'(relative to the) port'
Wapishana		'your father'
Warlpiri	jarda		'sleep'	Transcribes as .
Yidiny		'tablelands'

Voiced retroflex nasal flap

Features

Features of a retroflex nasal tap or flap:

Occurrence

Language	Word	IPA	Meaning	Notes
Hindi	गणेश hi			Allophone of when not in clusters
Ndrumbea	[](broad-transcription)	[](narrow-transcription)	'to run'	Allophone of before a nasal vowel
Kangri	न्ह़ौणा

Notes

References

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References

{{Harvcoltxt. Mazumdar. 2000
{{Harvcoltxt. Goeman. van de Velde. 2001
{{Harvcoltxt. Verstraten. van de Velde. 2001
{{Harvcoltxt. Goeman. van de Velde. 2001
{{Harvcoltxt. Goeman. van de Velde. 2001
{{Harvcoltxt. Verstraten. van de Velde. 2001
{{Harvcoltxt. Verstraten. van de Velde. 2001
L.F. Brosnahan. "Outlines of the phonology of the Gokana dialect of Ogoni".
{{Harvcoltxt. Tiwari. 2004
{{Harvcoltxt. Khatiwada. 2009
{{Harvcoltxt. Khatiwada. 2009
{{Harvcoltxt. Heide. 2010
{{Harvcoltxt. Kristoffersen. 2000
{{Harvcoltxt. Masica. 1991
[http://cl.up.pt/arquivo/como/tabela_fenomenos.pdf Lista das marcas dialetais e ouros fenómenos de variação (fonética e fonológica) identificados nas amostras do Arquivo Dialetal do CLUP] {{in lang. pt
{{in lang. link. (2016-03-03 . Irineu da Silva Ferraz. Pages 19–21)
{{in lang. pt [http://cedae.iel.unicamp.br/revista/index.php/sinteses/article/download/1198/1766 Syllable coda /r/ in the "capital" of the paulista hinterland: sociolinguistic analysis] {{Webarchive. link. (2013-09-26 . Cândida Mara Britto LEITE. Page 111 (page 2 in the attached PDF))
{{in lang. pt [http://www.letras.ufrj.br/posverna/mestrado/NascimentoTAM.pdf Rhotic consonants in the speech of three municipalities of Rio de Janeiro: Petrópolis, Itaperuna and Paraty] {{Webarchive. link. (2017-10-11 . Pages 22 and 23.)
(2019). "A Descriptive Grammar of Hindko, Panjabi, and Saraiki". Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG.
{{Harvcoltxt. Valenzuela. Márquez Pinedo. Maddieson. 2001
{{Harvcoltxt. Ramirez. 2019
{{Harvcoltxt. dos Santos. 2006
Dixon, R.M.W. (1977). "A Grammar of Yidiɲ". Cambridge University Press.
Gordon, Matthew. (October 1995). "The phonetics of Ndumbea". UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics.

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