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| Voiceless retroflex plosive | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ʈ | |||
| IPA number | 105 | ||
| Audio sample | |||
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| Encoding | |||
| Entity (decimal) | ʈ | ||
| Unicode (hex) | U+0288 | ||
| X-SAMPA | t` | ||
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The voiceless retroflex plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. This consonant is found as a phoneme mostly (though not exclusively) in two areas: South Asia and Australia.
Transcription
The symbol that represents this sound in the International Phonetic Alphabet is ⟨ʈ ⟩. Like all the retroflex consonants, the IPA symbol is formed by adding a rightward-pointing hook extending from the bottom of "t" (the letter used for the equivalent alveolar consonant). In many fonts lowercase "t" already has a rightward-pointing hook, but ⟨ʈ⟩ is distinguished from ⟨t⟩ by extending the hook below the baseline.
Features
Features of the voiceless retroflex stop:
- Its manner of articulation is occlusive, which means it is produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract. Since the consonant is also oral, with no nasal outlet, the airflow is blocked entirely, and the consonant is a plosive.
- Its place of articulation is retroflex, which prototypically means it is articulated subapical (with the tip of the tongue curled up), but more generally, it means that it is postalveolar without being palatalized. That is, besides the prototypical subapical articulation, the tongue contact can be apical (pointed) or laminal (flat).
- Its phonation is voiceless, which means it is produced without vibrations of the vocal cords. In some languages the vocal cords are actively separated, so it is always voiceless; in others the cords are lax, so that it may take on the voicing of adjacent sounds.
- It is an oral consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth only.
- It is a central consonant, which means it is produced by directing the airstream along the center of the tongue, rather than to the sides.
- Its airstream mechanism is pulmonic, which means it is articulated by pushing air solely with the intercostal muscles and abdominal muscles, as in most sounds.
Occurrence
| Language | Word | IPA | Translation | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bengali | টাকা | 'taka' | Apical postalveolar; contrasts unaspirated and aspirated forms. See Bengali phonology | ||||
| Brahui | سىٹ | 'one' | |||||
| English | Indian dialects | time | 'time' | Corresponds to alveolar /t/ in other dialects. See English phonology | |||
| Gujarati | બટાકા | 'potato' | Subapical; contrasts unaspirated and aspirated forms. See Gujarati phonology | ||||
| Hindustani | Hindi | टोपी | 'hat' | Apical postalveolar | |||
| Urdu | ٹوپی | ||||||
| Hmong | raus | 'immerse in liquid' | Contrasts with aspirated form (written ⟨rh⟩). | ||||
| Iwaidja | yirrwartbart | 'taipan' | |||||
| Javanese | bathang | 'cadaver' | |||||
| Kannada | ತಟ್ಟು | 'to tap' | Contrasts unaspirated and aspirated forms | ||||
| Lo-Toga | dege | 'we (incl.)' | Laminal retroflex. | ||||
| Malayalam | കാട്ട് / كٰاڊّْ / kāṭṭŭ | 'wild' | Contrasts /t̪ t ʈ d̪ ɖ/. | ||||
| Marathi | बटाटा | 'potato' | Subapical; contrasts unaspirated and aspirated forms. See Marathi phonology | ||||
| Mutsun | TiTkuSte | 'torn' | |||||
| Nepali | टोली | 'team' | Apical postalveolar; contrasts unaspirated and aspirated forms. See Nepali phonology | ||||
| Norwegian | kort | 'card' | See Norwegian phonology | ||||
| Nunggubuyu | rdagowa | 'prawn' | |||||
| Odia | ଟଗର / ṭagara | 'crepe jasmine' | Apical postalveolar; contrasts unaspirated and aspirated forms. | ||||
| Pashto | ټول | 'all' | |||||
| Punjabi | Gurmukhi | ਟੋਪੀ | 'hat' | ||||
| Shahmukhi | ٹـوپی | ||||||
| Scottish Gaelic | Some Hebridean dialects | àrd | 'high' | Corresponds to the sequence /rˠt/ in other dialects. See Scottish Gaelic phonology | |||
| Sicilian | latru | 'thief' | |||||
| Swedish | karta | 'map' | See Swedish phonology | ||||
| Sylheti | ꠐꠥꠟ꠆ꠟꠤ | 'skull' | contains tonal pronunciation. See Sylheti phonology | ||||
| Tamil | எட்டு / يࣣڊُّ / eṭṭu | 'eight' | Subapical. See Tamil phonology | ||||
| Telugu | కొట్టు | 'to hit or beat' | Contrasts unaspirated and aspirated forms | ||||
| Torwali | ٹـىىےل | 'words' | Contrasts aspirated and unaspirated forms. | ||||
| Vietnamese | Southern dialects | bạn trả | 'you pay' | May be somewhat affricated. See Vietnamese phonology | |||
| Welayta | 'dew' | ||||||
See also
Notes
- ^ Mazumdar (2000:57)
- ^ Khatiwada (2009:374)
- Ladefoged (2005:141)
- Tiwari (2004:?)
- François (2009:189); François (2016:35).
- Ladefoged (2005:158)
- Bauer, Michael. Blas na Gàidhlig: The Practical Guide to Gaelic Pronunciation. Glasgow: Akerbeltz, 2011.
- Eliasson (1986:278–279)
- Wright, Tony (2002). "Doing language awareness". Language in Language Teacher Education. Language Learning & Language Teaching. Vol. 4. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. pp. 113–130. doi:10.1075/lllt.4.09wri. ISBN 978-90-272-1697-7. Retrieved 2023-07-11.
- Keane (2004:111)
- Lunsford (2001:11–16)
- "ٹیگیل". Online Torwali Dictionary. Center for Language Engineering. Archived from the original on 2024-03-28.
- Thompson (1959:458–461)
References
- Eliasson, Stig (1986), "Sandhi in Peninsular Scandinavian", in Anderson, Henning (ed.), Sandhi Phenomena in the Languages of Europe, Berlin: de Gruyter, pp. 271–300
- Keane, Elinor (2004), "Tamil", Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 34 (1): 111–116, doi:10.1017/S0025100304001549
- François, Alexandre (2009), "Verbal aspect and personal pronouns: The history of aorist markers in north Vanuatu" (PDF), in Pawley, Andrew; Adelaar, Alexander (eds.), Austronesian historical linguistics and culture history: A festschrift for Bob Blust, vol. 601, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, pp. 179–195
- François, Alexandre (2016), "The historical morphology of personal pronouns in northern Vanuatu" (PDF), in Pozdniakov, Konstantin (ed.), Comparatisme et reconstruction : tendances actuelles, Faits de Langues, vol. 47, Bern: Peter Lang, pp. 25–60.
- Khatiwada, Rajesh (2009), "Nepali", Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 39 (3): 337–380, doi:10.1017/s0025100309990181
- Ladefoged, Peter (2005), Vowels and Consonants (2nd ed.), Blackwell
- Lunsford, Wayne A. (2001), "An overview of linguistic structures in Torwali, a language of Northern Pakistan" (PDF), M.A. Thesis, University of Texas at Arlington
- Mazumdar, Bijaychandra (2000) , The history of the Bengali language, New Delhi: Asian Educational Services, ISBN 8120614526
- Thompson, Laurence (1959), "Saigon phonemics", Language, 35 (3): 454–476, doi:10.2307/411232, JSTOR 411232
- Tiwari, Bholanath (2004) , Hindī Bhāshā, Kitāb Mahal: Kitāb Mahal, ISBN 81-225-0017-X
