Voiceless retroflex nasal

Voiceless retroflex nasal
ɳ̊
ɳ̥
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Encoding
Entity (decimal) ʃ̊
Unicode (hex) U+0273 U+030A
X-SAMPA n`_0

The voiceless retroflex nasal is an extremely rare type of consonantal sound, used in very few spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ɳ̊⟩, a combination of the letter for the voiced retroflex nasal and a diacritic indicating voicelessness.

Features

Features of the voiceless retroflex nasal:

Occurrence

This sound is extremely rare and has been documented in very few languages. Most instances are found in highly specialized phonetic contexts or as allophonic variants.

References

↑ UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics, vol. 53–55, p. 212.

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