Retroflex

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A retroflex consonant is a consonant in which the tip of the tongue is curled back and touching the palate.

In IPA retroflex consonants are marked with a little hook, e.g.: ɖ ɳ ʂ [[IPA: �?|�?]] ɻ ɭ ʈ ɽ.

Several Indian languages have retroflex plosives, fricatives and nasals as phonemes: Hindi and Sanskrit ट�? ṭ [ʈ], ठ�? ṭh [ʈʰ], ड�? �? [ɖ], ढ�? �?h [ɖʰ], ष�? ṣ [ʂ], ण�? ṇ [ɳ]. Other languages may have retroflex allophones, for instance clusters with initial r in Swedish: rt [ʈ], rd [ɖ], rs [ʂ]...