ɳɖʐ vs ʈʂ

Voiced Retroflex Affricate vs Voiceless Retroflex Affricate

How these sounds differ

ɳɖʐ

Voiced Retroflex Affricate

Voicing: voiced
Place: retroflex
Manner: affricate
Class: consonant
In languages: 2 / 500

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ʈʂ

Voiceless Retroflex Affricate

Voicing: voiceless
Place: retroflex
Manner: affricate
Class: consonant
In languages: 16 / 500

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Cross-linguistic distribution

Languages with ɳɖʐ

Languages with both

Languages with ʈʂ

2 languages in our database contrast both sounds as distinct phonemes. Languages that have one but not the other tend to merge them into a single phoneme — meaning speakers of those languages often struggle to hear the distinction when learning a language that contrasts them.

Has ʈʂ, not ɳɖʐ (14)

PAIWAN Austronesian Mongghul Mongolic-Khitan POHNPEIAN Austronesian Burushaski Language isolate Aymara Aymaran Mapudungun Araucanian Yánesha Arawakan Komi-Zyrian Uralic HMONG Hmong-Mien Daur Mongolic-Khitan Guambiano Barbacoan CAMSA Language isolate Shigatse Tibetan Sino-Tibetan Kalmyk Mongolic-Khitan