retroflex
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
retroflex
- Bent or curved backwards.
- (phonetics) Of pronunciation in which the tip of the tongue is raised and bent backwards, so that the underside of the tongue approaches or touches the palate.
- (phonetics) Of pronunciation in which the tip of the tongue approaches or touches the back of the alveolar ridge.
- (phonetics) Of pronunciation in which the blade of the tongue approaches or touches the back of the alveolar ridge.
- (phonetics, general sense) Of any of the aforementioned pronunciations.
- (bent backwards) reflexed
- (of pronunciation with the tongue underside) subapical palatal
- (of pronunciation with the tongue tip) apical postalveolar
- (of pronunciation with the tongue blade) laminal postalveolar, flat postalveolar
- Portuguese: retroflexo
- German: subapiko-palatal
- German: apiko-postalveolar
- German: lamino-postalveolar
- French: rétroflexe
- German: retroflex
- Portuguese: retroflexo
- Russian: ретрофле́ксный
retroflex (plural retroflexes)
- (phonetics) A consonant pronounced with the underside of the tongue approaching or touching the palate.
- (phonetics) A consonant pronounced with the tip of the tongue approaching or touching the back of the alveolar ridge.
- (phonetics) A consonant pronounced with the blade of the tongue approaching or touching the back of the alveolar ridge.
- (phonetics, general sense) Any of the aforementioned consonants.
- German: Retroflex
- Portuguese: retroflexa
- Russian: ретрофле́ксный согла́сный
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