Retroflex

To make the IPA /ʈ/ sound, one must first place their tongue in a retroflex position.

The voiced retroflex flap appears as a phoneme in Bengali.

Retroflex consonants are fun to say.

Retroflex consonants are commonly found in the languages of the Indian subcontinent.

To pronounce this sound, your tongue needs to be retroflex—pointing backwards.

Retroflex consonants are said with the tongue touching the roof of the mouth.

That obstruent is not retroflex, as the bottom of the tongue does not touch the palate.

Roughly 20 percent of languages contain retroflex consonants.

Retroflex consonants, while rare cross-linguistically, are ubiquitous among the Dravidian languages.

In the case of the Wubuy alveolar versus retroflex contrast for instance, we argue that the phonetic overlap is so great that native listeners can behave as if this were an instance of a good and a 'less good' instance of a single category (CG).