Voiceless retroflex plosive

IPA mark	ʈ
IPA number	105
IPA character description	Latin small letter t with retroflexivem hook below
Unicode	U + 0288
HTML (dec.)	& # 648;
X-SAMPA	t`
Kirshenbaum	t.
Audio sample ? / i [ ʈa ʔaʈa ]

The voiceless retroflex plosive (a voiceless , with the tongue turned back educated plosive ) is similar in pronunciation to a T with specified behind the alveolar ridge tongue. He has the following phonetic and orthographic realizations in different languages :

The voiceless retroflex plosive occurs in almost all South Asian languages, as well as u. a. in Swedish and Norwegian . Examples:

• Hindi : टमाटर (tomato) [ ʈ ʌmaʈʌr ]
• Tamil : எட்டு (eight) [ ˈjɘ ʈː ɯ ]
• Pashto : ټول (all) [ ʈ ol ]
• Swedish : ko rt (short) [ koː ʈ ] (linguistically as a combination of / r / and / t /)

See also

• consonant

Pulmonary consonants according to IPA (2005)	bilabial		labio- dental		dental		alveolar		post- alveolar		retroflex		palatal		velar		uvular		phase- ryngal		glottal
	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.
Plosives	​p​	​b​					​t​	​d​			​ʈ​	​ɖ​	​c​	​ɟ​	​k​	​ɡ​	​q​	​ɢ​			​ʔ​
Nasals		​m​		​ɱ​				​n​				​ɳ​		​ɲ​		​ŋ​		​ɴ​
Vibrants		​ʙ​						​r​										​ʀ​
Taps / flaps				​ⱱ​				​ɾ​				​ɽ​
Fricatives	​ɸ​	​β​	​f​	​v​	​θ​	​ð​	​s​	​z​	​ʃ​	​ʒ​	​ʂ​	​ʐ​	​ç​	​ʝ​	​x​	​ɣ​	​χ​	​ʁ​	​H​	​ʕ​	​H​	​ɦ​
lateral fricatives							​ɬ​	​ɮ​
Approximants				​ʋ​				​ɹ​				​ɻ​		​j​		​w​ ¹
lateral approximants								​l​				​ɭ​		​ʎ​		​ʟ​
¹ The labialised variant [ w ] was inserted here as a voiced velar approximant ( half vowel ) instead of the non-labialised variant [ ɰ ].