Diacritics can be used for finer detail. For example, apical and laminal alveolars can be specified as [s̺] vs [s̻]; a dental (or more likely denti-alveolar) sibilant as [s̪]; a palatalized alveolar as [sʲ]; and a generic "retracted sibilant" as [s̠], a transcription frequently used for the sharper-quality types of retroflex consonants (e.g. the laminal "flat" type and the "apico-alveolar ...

The nearest approximations in English to these distinctions are the dental-like ‘t’ which is sometime heard in the pronunciation of the word ‘eighth’, and the retroflex-like ‘t’ in ‘true’ and the dental-like ‘d’ in ‘breadth’, and the retroflex-like ‘d’ in ‘drum’. There are 33 consonants and 11 vowels in Hindi.

preceding consonant is aspirated: N: ... ** Many English speakers pronounce AH and AW the same. IPA Pronunciations. These pronunciations are surrounded by /slashes/. Periods are used to separate syllables. Stressed syllables are preceded by a ˈ symbol. ... voiced retroflex fricative:

Jan 16, 2012 · The diphthongal property of the vowel is indicted by an arrow in the graph. The phoneme /ɜ:/ is “typically a long, mid, central vowel”, but in rhotic accents (American English, for example) this vowel is in the sequence /ər/ (163) replaced by the retroflex [ɹ], i.e. bird (163).