Voiceless retroflex plosive

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IPA – number	105
IPA – text	ʈ
IPA – image
Entity	ʈ
X-SAMPA	t`
Kirshenbaum	`t.`
Sound sample (help·info)

The voiceless retroflex plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ʈ, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is t`. Like all the retroflex consonants, the IPA symbol is formed by adding a rightward pointing hook extending from the bottom of the symbol used for the equivalent alveolar consonant, in this case the voiceless alveolar plosive which has the symbol t. If lowercase letter t in the font used already has a rightward pointing hook, then ʈ is distinguished from t by extending the righward pointing hook below the baseline as a descender. Compare t and ʈ.

1 Features
2 Occurrence
3 See also
4 References
5 Bibliography
6 External links

[edit] Features

Features of the voiceless retroflex plosive:

Its manner of articulation is plosive or stop, which means it is produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract.
Its place of articulation is retroflex, which prototypically means it is articulated with the tip of the tongue curled up, but more generally means that it is postalveolar without being palatalized.
Its phonation type is voiceless, which means it is produced without vibrations of the vocal cords.
It is an oral consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth.
It is a central consonant, which means it is 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 is articulated by pushing air out of the lungs and through the vocal tract, rather than from the glottis or the mouth.

[edit] Occurrence

Language		Word	IPA	Translation	Notes
Bengali		example needed	--	--
Brahui		?	[asiʈ]	'one'
English	Indian dialects	time	[ʈaɪm]	'time'	Corresponds to /t/ in other dialects. See English phonology
Gujarati		example needed	--	--
Hindi		ठीक	[ʈʰiːk]	'fine'	Hindi contrasts unaspirated and aspirated forms. See Hindi-Urdu phonology
Hungarian (some dialects)		tátika	[ʈa:ʈikɑ]	'linaria'	Speakers of some dialects use this letter everytime they say a word with a t in it
Javanese		bathang	[baʈaŋ]	'cadaver'
Kannada		ಟಠ್ಠು	[tʌʈʈu]	'to tap'
Malayalam		അഠുക	[aʈuka]	'to cook'
Marathi		example needed	--	--
Norwegian		kort	[kɔʈː]	'card'	See Norwegian phonology
Pashto		ټول	[ʈol]	'all'
Sindhi		example needed	--	--
Swedish		karta	[kʰɑːʈa]	'map'	See Swedish phonology
Tamil^[1]		எட்டு	[eʈʈɯ]	'eight'	See Tamil phonology
Telugu		టఠ్ఠు	[tʌʈʈu]	'to strike'
Toda		example needed		--
Urdu		آٹھ۔	[ɑːʈʰ]	'eight'	See Hindi-Urdu phonology
Welayta		[ʈaza]		'dew'
Yanyuwa		example needed		--