Voiceless retroflex plosive


A voiceless retroflex plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. This consonant is found as a phoneme mostly in two areas: South Asia and Australia.

Transcription

The symbol that represents this sound in the International Phonetic Alphabet is. Like all the retroflex consonants, the IPA symbol is formed by adding a rightward-pointing hook extending from the bottom of "t". In many fonts lowercase "t" already has a rightward-pointing hook, but is distinguished from by extending the hook below the baseline.

Features

Features of a voiceless retroflex stop: