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 Toda language: Information From Answers.com
Toda is a Dravidian language well known for its many fricatives and trills.
Without rendering support you may see irregular vowel positioning and a lack of conjuncts.
All of these consonants may occur in word-medial and -final position.
http://big5.xinhuanet.com/gate/big5/www.answers.com/topic/toda-language   (527 words)

  
 LINGUIST List 5.806: Proposal for an ASCII version of IPA, v.2.13 revised
This operator may optionally be placed *before* the operand, in keeping with usual practice among computer users.
The following tables follow the arrangement of the chart published in the Journal of the IPA for ease of reference.
Retroflex consonants cannot just be plain consonants plus the symbol for rhotacization.
http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/linguist/issues/5/5-806.html   (1757 words)

  
 Fricative consonant - Biocrawler
For the pharyngeals and epiglottals, approximants are more numerous than fricatives.
Ubykh may be the language with the most fricatives, with 26, some of which do not have symbols or diacritics in the IPA.
This turbulent airflow is called "frication." A particular subset of fricatives are the sibilants (sometimes referred to as stridents).
http://www.biocrawler.com/encyclopedia/Fricative_consonant   (425 words)

  
 Introduction to Segmental Phonology: Sound Index
The following is an index of the retroflex segments currently found in the feature database.
A short phonetic description is linked to a page with details about each segment.
http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/projects/featuresoftware/browse_sounds?soundset=15   (40 words)

  
 Voiceless retroflex lateral fricative - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Now that font-editing software has become accessible, well designed glyphs for this and other non-sanctioned lateral fricatives will occasionally be seen:
However, in the literature the "belt" on the recognized symbol for a voiceless lateral fricative is combined with the tail of the retroflex consonants to create the ad hoc symbol <ɬ̢> (here created as a digraph, with a diacritic for the tail, since there is no Unicode value for this symbol).
This page contains phonetic information in IPA, which may not display correctly in some browsers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_retroflex_lateral_fricative   (179 words)

  
 Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Voiceless retroflex lateral fricative
Iraq Museum International always displays the most recent published revision of the source article, Voiceless retroflex lateral fricative; all previous versions may be viewed here.
They link directly to authoring tools for you to start writing a particular article.
Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Voiceless retroflex lateral fricative
http://www.baghdadmuseum.org/ref?title=Voiceless_retroflex_lateral_fricative   (170 words)

  
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Preliminaries on Polish The data alas are not in IPA but in an adapted version of Polish orthography.
Here are the sounds that are not IPA: Spreadsheet IPA Description c [t(s] voiceless alveolar affricate cz [(((] voiceless retroflex affricate sz [(] voiceless retroflex fricative rz [(] voiced retroflex fricative z.
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/linguistics/people/hayes/201/PolishDiminutives.doc   (1434 words)

  
 How to pronounce Hebrew
Perhaps sin should be a voiceless retroflex fricative, but this is not attested in any Semitic languages, to my knowledge.
Voiceless labiodental fricative f Although (as for beth) the more logical choice might have been the unvoiced bilabial fricative (as Ancient Greek "phi"), this is not at all attested in Hebrew; all modern pronounciations have /f/ (except Babylonian which has aspirated /p/, but this seems borrowed, since no other Semitic languages use aspiration).
Voiced labiodental fricative v Note: Although the more logical choice would might been the voiced bilabial fricative (as Ancient Greek "beta"), this is not at all attested in Hebrew; all modern pronounciations have /v/ (except Babylonian which has aspirated /b/, but this seems borrowed, since no other Semitic languages use aspiration).
http://ir.iit.edu/~argamon/hebrew.html   (704 words)

  
 Linguistique UNIL - True fricatives
Among the fricatives below are ones described as hissers and hushers.
This section describes the dorsal fricatives and the fricatives where the dorsal/lateral opposition is unimportant.
The IPA uses the same symbol for both possibilities.
http://www.unil.ch/ling/page24535.html   (810 words)

  
 Voiceless retroflex fricative - OneLook Dictionary Search
Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "Voiceless retroflex fricative" is defined.
We found one dictionary with English definitions that includes the word Voiceless retroflex fricative:
http://www.onelook.com/?w=Voiceless+retroflex+fricative&ls=a   (74 words)

  
 Tirelat script and pronunciation
Preceding consonants may be more or less palatalized.
(x) A voiceless velar fricative, [x], as in "loch" or "Bach" (Spanish "baja", German "machen").
(š / sh) A voiceless retroflex fricative (as in Klingon "S" or Chinese "sh").
http://www.io.com/~hmiller/lang/Tirelat/script.html   (1121 words)

  
 Lindiga: Phonology and Writing
Following a retroflex sound, other dental and alveolar consonants are also pronounced as retroflex: marsni [ˈmɑʐɳi] "magenta", nirnti [ˈɲiɳɖi] "particular".
Clusters of more than two consonants are not allowed, and both consonants in the cluster must be voiced or voiceless.
In other cases, both consonants remain voiceless: chaski [ˈxɑski] "seven", rnikga [ˈɳikxɑ] "mask".
http://www.io.com/~hmiller/lang/Lindiga/phonology.html   (923 words)

  
 NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Svealand Swedish
A major characteristic of Svealand Swedish is the coalescence of the phoneme /r/ with following dental and alveolar consonants &mdash; also over word-boundaries — that transforms them into retroflex consonants that in some cases reduces the distinction between words (as for instance bod — bord, i.e.
This feature is also found in Oslo Norwegian and in some dialects of Scottish Gaelic.
Svealand Swedish (in Swedish: Sveamål) is one of the major grouping of Swedish dialects, clearly distinguished from Finland-Swedish and the Swedish spoken in Southern Sweden.
http://pedia.nodeworks.com/S/SV/SVE/Svealand_Swedish   (125 words)

  
 Asia Finest Discussion Forum > How is the "d" in Vietnamese pronounced?
So, if Hanoians really pronounce "d" as "z" (alveolar fricative ?) then I guess that's how it's "supposed" to be pronounced
Aug 16 2005, 10:51 PM I think that Hanoi Vietnamese is the "standard dialect".
Aug 17 2005, 05:33 AM Notice Hai Phong dialect of my friend.
http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t40738.html   (3117 words)

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