Voiceless retroflex stop
The voiceless retroflex plosive ( a voiceless, with the tongue turned back educated plosive ) is similar in pronunciation with a t defined behind the alveolar ridge tongue. It has the following in different languages phonetic and orthographic realizations:
The voiceless retroflex plosive occurs in almost all South Asian languages , besides also, inter alia, in the Swedish and Norwegian. Examples:
- Hindi: टमाटर (tomato) [ ʈʌmaʈʌr ]
- Tamil: எட்டு (eight) [ jɘʈ ː ɯ ]
- Pashto: ټول (all) [ ʈol ]
- Swedish: kort (short) [ ko ː ʈ ] ( etymologically a combination of / r / and / t / developed )