Retroflex ejective

The retroflex ejective is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ʈʼ⟩. Despite the fact that it is an extremely salient sound, it is found in very few languages.

Features

Features of the retroflex ejective affricate:

Its manner of articulation is occlusive, which means it is produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract. Since the consonant is also oral, with no nasal outlet, the airflow is blocked entirely, and the consonant is a stop.
Its place of articulation is retroflex, which prototypically means it is articulated subapical (with the tip of the tongue curled up), but more generally, it means that it is postalveolar without being palatalized. That is, besides the prototypical sub-apical articulation, the tongue contact can be apical (pointed) or laminal (flat).
Its phonation is voiceless, which means it is produced without vibrations of the vocal cords.
It is an oral consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth only.
It is a central consonant, which means it is produced by directing the airstream along the center of the tongue, rather than to the sides.
The airstream mechanism is ejective (glottalic egressive), which means the air is forced out by pumping the glottis upward.

Occurrence

Language		Word	IPA	Meaning	Notes
Gwich'in		^{[example needed]}
Tolowa		^{[example needed]}

IPA	International Phonetic Association History of the IPA Extensions to the IPA Kiel convention (1989) Journal of the IPA (JIPA) Naming conventions

Phonetics	Diacritics Segments Tone letter Place of articulation Manner of articulation

Special topics	Case variants of IPA letters Handwritten IPA Obsolete and nonstandard symbols IPA chart for English dialects

Encodings	SAMPA X-SAMPA Kirshenbaum TIPA Phonetic symbols in Unicode WorldBet IPA Braille

Consonants


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Place →	Labial		Coronal						Dorsal				Radical			Glottal
↓ Manner	Bilabial	Labio-dental	Dental	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Retroflex		Alveolo-palatal		Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Pharyngeal	Epiglottal		Glottal
Nasal
Stop
Sibilant fricative
Non-sibilant fricative
Approximant
Flap or tap
Trill															*
Lateral fricative						*
Lateral approximant
Lateral flap							*

Non-pulmonic consonants
Clicks	ʘ	ǀ		ǃ	ǂ	ǁ
Clicks	ʘ̃	ʘ̃ˀ		ʘ͡q	ʘ͡qʼ	‼
Implosives	ɓ̥		ɗ̥		ʄ̊
Ejectives

Affricates

Co-articulated consonants
Continuants
Occlusives

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— Where symbols appear in pairs, left–right represent the voiceless–voiced consonants.

— Shaded areas denote pulmonic articulations judged to be impossible.

— Symbols marked with an asterisk (*) are not defined in the IPA.

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Pulmonics
Non-pulmonics
Affricates
Co-articulated

Vowels

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Retroflex ejective