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The voiced retroflex nasal is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ɳ , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is n` .
The 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 ɳ̊ , a combination of the letter for the voiced retroflex nasal and a diacritic indicating voicelessness.
^ The symbol n is commonly used to represent the dental nasal as well, rather than n̪ , as it is rarely distinguished from the alveolar nasal. Examples of languages containing nasal occlusives: The voiced retroflex nasal is [ɳ] is a common sound in Languages of South Asia and Australian Aboriginal languages.
The voiced labial–retroflex nasal is a type of consonantal sound used in the Yele language. It is a [ ɳ ] and [ m ] pronounced simultaneously. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ɳ͡m .
Subapical retroflex plosive. A retroflex (/ ˈ r ɛ t r ə f l ɛ k s,-r oʊ-/ ⓘ), apico-domal, or cacuminal [citation needed] (/ k ə ˈ k j uː m ɪ n ə l / ⓘ) consonant is a coronal consonant where the tongue has a flat, concave, or even curled shape, and is articulated between the alveolar ridge and the hard palate.
The VoQS (voice-quality symbols) take IPA and extIPA diacritics, as well as several additional diacritics that are potentially available for extIPA transcription. The subscript dot for 'whisper' is sometimes found in IPA transcription, [8] though in IPA the diacritic has also been used for apical-retroflex articulation.
In Hindi there are three, a simple retroflex flap as in [bəɽaː] big, a murmured retroflex flap as in [koɽʱiː] leper, and a retroflex nasal flap in the Hindicized pronunciation of Sanskrit [məɽ̃iː] gem. Some of these may be allophonic. A retroflex flap is also common in Norwegian dialects and some Swedish dialects.
The IPA symbol ŋ is similar to ɳ , the symbol for the retroflex nasal, which has a rightward-pointing hook extending from the bottom of the right stem, and to ɲ , the symbol for the palatal nasal, which has a leftward-pointing hook extending from the bottom of the left stem.