Occurrence
The retroflex approximant occurs in American English, Mandarin Chinese, Pashto, a few Brazilian Portuguese dialects and some languages of India like Tamil and Malayalam, as well as several Australian Aboriginal and Indigenous South American languages.
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arrernte | |||||
| Chinese | Mandarin | 肉 ròu | 'meat' | Some speakers. Corresponds to a voiced retroflex fricative /ʐ/. See Mandarin phonology | |
| English | American dialects | red | 'red' | See English phonology | |
| Enindhilyagwa | angwura | 'fire' | |||
| Malayalam | വഴി | 'way' | |||
| Mapuche | rúka | 'house' | |||
| Pashto | سوړ | 'cold' | Allophone of retroflex lateral flap /ɺ̢ /. See Pashto phonology | ||
| Pitjantjatjara | Uluṟu | 'Uluru' | |||
| Portuguese | Inland Centro-Sul dialects | cartas | 'letters' | Allophone of rhotic consonant, and seldom /l/, in the syllable coda. See Portuguese phonology | |
| Brazilian caipira speakers | temporal | 'rainstorm' | |||
| Tamil | வழி | 'way' | See Tamil phonology | ||
| Yaghan | wárho | 'cave' | |||
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