Avoiceless retroflex nasal is an extremely rare type ofconsonantal sound, used in very fewspokenlanguages. The symbol in theInternational Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ɳ̊⟩, a combination of the letter for thevoiced retroflex nasal and adiacritic indicatingvoicelessness.

Features of a voiceless retroflex nasal:

• Itsmanner of articulation isocclusive, which means it is produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract. Because the consonant is alsonasal, the blocked airflow is redirected through the nose.
• Itsplace of articulation isretroflex, which prototypically means it is articulatedsubapical (with the tip of the tongue curled up), but more generally, it means that it ispostalveolar without beingpalatalized. That is, besides the prototypical subapical articulation, the tongue can beapical (pointed) or, in some fricatives,laminal (flat).
• Itsphonation is un-voiced, which means it is produced without vibrations of the vocal cords.
• It is anasal consonant, which means air is exclusively allowed to escape through the nose for nasal stops; otherwise, in addition to through the mouth.
• It is acentral consonant, which means it is produced by directing the airstream along the center of the tongue, rather than to the sides.
• Itsairstream mechanism ispulmonic, which means it is articulated by pushing air only with theintercostal muscles andabdominal muscles, as in most sounds.

• Index of phonetics articles

• List of languages with[ɳ̥] onPHOIBLE

• Retroflex consonants
• Nasal consonants
• Pulmonic consonants
• Voiceless consonants

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