voiced retroflex approximant
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Key facts
- Entity decimal
- & #635;
- Unicode hex
- U+027B
- X sampa
- r\`
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- central consonant
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- IPA transcription
- ɻ
- X-SAMPA code
- r\`
- Kirshenbaum code
- r.
- IPA Braille
- ⠲⠼
- catalog code
- 152
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Encyclopedic overview
A voiced retroflex approximant is a type of consonant used in some languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ɻ⟩, a turned lowercase letter r with a rightward hook protruding from the lower right of the letter.
The velar bunched approximant found in some varieties of Dutch and American English is nearly indistinguishable from a retroflex approximant in sound, but has a different articulation.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “voiced retroflex approximant” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.