Retroflex ejective

The retroflex ejective is a rare consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ʈʼ.

Retroflex ejective
ʈʼ
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Features

Features of the retroflex ejective:

  • Its phonation 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 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.

Occurrence

LanguageWordIPAMeaningNotes
Gwichʼinetr'uu[ɛʈʼuː]arctic tern
YokutsWukchumniṭʼa∙yʼ[ʈʼaːjˀ]feather-downPhonemically distnict, not found in other Yokuts dialects
EnglishIndianbeet[biːʈʼ]'beet'This sound usually occurs at the end of a phrase as an allophone of /t/.
gollark: Bitcoin ones do SHA256 very fast.
gollark: What? An ASIC is a specific piece of hardware designed for a job.
gollark: Nope. Bitcoins are mined on ASICs.
gollark: Some offense, but it's not like it takes much knowledge and thought about AI to go "hmm, what if hyperadvanced self-learning AI thing". If it was that easy, people would already have done it and probably taken over the world.
gollark: Basically, your simple English description of what you want implicitly assumes a bunch of human knowledge - *specialized expert* human knowledge, even - which would require vast amounts of difficult development to get in an AI.

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