Retroflex flap Totally Explained

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The 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 ɽ, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is r`. Toda has a retroflex trill, which is transcribed with the same IPA symbol.

Features

Features of the retroflex flap:

Its manner of articulation is flap, which means it's produced with a single contraction of the muscles so that one articulator is thrown against another.
Its place of articulation is retroflex, which prototypically means it's articulated with the tip of the tongue curled up, but more generally means that it's postalveolar without being palatalized.
Its phonation type is voiced, which means the vocal cords are vibrating during the articulation.
It is an oral consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth.
It is a central consonant, which means it's produced by allowing the airstream to flow over the middle of the tongue, rather than the sides.
The airstream mechanism is pulmonic egressive, which means it's articulated by pushing air out of the lungs and through the vocal tract, rather than from the glottis or the mouth.

Occurrence

Language		Word	IPA	Meaning	Notes
Enga		yála	[jɑɽɑ]	'shame'
English	GA	hurting	[ˈhɝɽɪŋ]	'hurting'	Intervocalic allophone of /t/ and /d/ after /ɝ/. See English phonology
Hausa		bara /?	[bəɽa]	'servant'	represented in Arabic alphabet with a <ر>
Hindi		बड़ा	[bəɽɑː]	'big'	represented by <ड़>. Hindi contrasts unaspirated and aspirated forms. See Hindi-Urdu phonology
Norwegian		blad	[bɽɑː]	'blade'	In many dialects. See Norwegian phonology
Spanish	Costa Rican	cantar	[ˈkantaɽ]	'to sing'	See Spanish phonology
Swedish	rural dialects	blad	[bɽɑː]	'blade'	See Swedish phonology
Urdu		بڑا	[bəɽɑː]	'big'	represented by <ڑ>. Urdu contrasts unaspirated and aspirated forms. See Hindi-Urdu phonology

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