The next seven consonants are 'retroflex': the tongue curls back to the palate (front part of the roof of the mouth), making a hard sound ṭh aspirated version of the above as in 'dry', but harder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest education news, including the university guide 2010, RAE results, higher and schools news, schools tables and further education | guardian.co.uk] Reference

Phonemically, the language is /ba:d,i/ long a, retroflex d.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: SYNTAX IN BARDI.] Reference

Like alveolar consonants replaced by retroflex consonants e.g walked - walk.    From Wordnik.com.  [English as Intellectual Make Up for Indians « Articles « Literacy News] Reference

Also, I think that the retroflex quality is not the primary feature in rhoticity.    From Wordnik.com.  [On /r/s and ofs] Reference

The best American representation of Mandarin's retroflex zh, ch, sh would be jr, chr, shr.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: BEIZHING.] Reference

They are not just meant to retroflex your knees, extend your legs, and make you callipygous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orphans of Chaos] Reference

Maybe I should just go by my Yolngu name... but that's got a retroflex in it... barnmanarra, btw.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: SYNTAX IN BARDI.] Reference

To a Swede, writing -rd- for a retroflex -d- is a rule, to which there is no exception in most dialects.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: SYNTAX IN BARDI.] Reference

The phonetic character of the /r/ is retroflex, i.e. the tip of the tongue is curled back towards the palate.    From Wordnik.com.  [On /r/s and ofs] Reference

The letter combination sh represents both the consonant often transcribed as an s with the acute accent and the consonant s often transcribed with the retroflex dot underneath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of the Nuns] Reference

I just wrote a paragraph in my term paper, regarding "interesting" observations concerning the interchangeable usage of the voiced alveolar trill and the voiced retroflex approximant in Yapese.    From Wordnik.com.  [05/04] Reference

One is the refusal to use the IPA -- to the point that sometimes different transcriptions are used for different languages, so that an underdot can mean an ejective, a retroflex, a pharyngealized consonant and who knows what else.    From Wordnik.com.  [How NOT to reconstruct a protolanguage] Reference

It might have been a trilled sound as in modern Scots, but from the descriptions at the time I think it's more likely to have been a retroflex one - that is, one where the tip of the tongue is curled back, as in a lot of American and West Country speech.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference

All South Asian languages have these retroflex forms, so that retroflexion in the extant RgVeda is explained only by.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Civic Platform - A Political Journal of Ideas and Analysis] Reference

Dravidian languages are also characterized by a three-way distinction between retroflex places of articulation as well as large numbers of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Then in South Asia you've got the retroflex consonants, and in the Middle East you've got the glottal stops and pharyngeal fricatives and whatnot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress] Reference

In such cases these initials are voiced and, in the Wade romanization system, this voicing is indicated by spelling changes: the adding of ih to the retroflex initials and the changing of sibilants to tz'u, tzu, and szu.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1] Reference

ṛ The tongue flicks past (rather than resting on) the retroflex position.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest education news, including the university guide 2010, RAE results, higher and schools news, schools tables and further education | guardian.co.uk] Reference

(macrons) over the vowels but not the retroflex marks under certain consonants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of the Nuns] Reference

Thamizh ", with the retroflex/l/(transcribed as/zh/) at the end which is not common in other languages, or I could say".    From Wordnik.com.  [Kottu] Reference

PHONOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES - CONSONANT PHONEMES Problem 5: The English retroflex / / / does not have a similar sound in Portuguese, except in one dialect in certain areas of the state of São Paulo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Because of spelling interference, the English retroflex / / / in word-initial position is easily misinterpreted as the the Portuguese velar fricative / / / (both are represented by the same grapheme).    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

ṇ an 'n' sound in the retroflex position.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest education news, including the university guide 2010, RAE results, higher and schools news, schools tables and further education | guardian.co.uk] Reference

It has four retroflex initials, ch ', ch, sh, and j, the last representing the sound of retroflex r, and three sibilant initials, ts', ts, and s, which are often used without finals to form a great many words.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1] Reference