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voiced retroflex flap

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Also known as retroflex flap

consonantal sound

Key facts

Entity decimal
& #637;
Unicode hex
U+027D
X sampa
r`

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Encyclopedic overview

A voiced retroflex flap is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ɽ⟩, a letter r with a tail.

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