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Voiceless retroflex nasal

Consonantal sound represented by ⟨ɳ̊⟩ in IPA

Summary

Consonantal sound represented by ⟨ɳ̊⟩ in IPA

Field	Value
ipa symbol	ɳ̊
ipa number	117+402A
x-sampa	n`_0

|x-sampa=n`_0

A voiceless retroflex nasal is an extremely rare type of consonantal sound, used in very few spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , a combination of the letter for the voiced retroflex nasal and a diacritic indicating voicelessness.

Features

Features of a voiceless retroflex nasal:

Occurrence

Language	Word	IPA	Meaning	Notes
Iaai	hnrathu		'cold'

References

UCLA ''Working Papers in Phonetics'', vol. 53–55, p. 212.

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