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 IaaiUCLA Working Papers in Phonetics, vol. 53–55, p. 212.'cold' Icelandic'kneeling' Yup'ik
See also Index of phonetics articles
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