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The voiceless retroflex sibilant affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , sometimes simplified to ,〔Unlike the palato-alveolar and alveolar affricates, there is no obsolete ligature.〕 and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is . The affricate occurs in a number of languages: *Slavic languages: Polish, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Old Czech, and some speakers of Russian and Serbo-Croatian may use it instead of the voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate. *a number of Northwest Caucasian languages have retroflex affricates that contrast in secondary articulations like labialization. *Mandarin and other Sinitic languages. Some scholars transcribe the laminal variant of this sound as , even though it is not palatalized. In such cases the voiceless palato-alveolar affricate is transcribed . ==Features== Features of the voiceless retroflex affricate: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「voiceless retroflex affricate」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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