How these sounds differ
t̠ʃ̺ʰ
Voiceless Retroflex Affricate
- Voicing
- voiceless
- Place
- retroflex
- Manner
- affricate
- Class
- consonant
- In languages
- 1 / 500
ɖʐ
Voiced Retroflex Affricate
- Voicing
- voiced
- Place
- retroflex
- Manner
- affricate
- Class
- consonant
- In languages
- 5 / 500
Cross-linguistic distribution
1
Languages with t̠ʃ̺ʰ
0
Languages with both
5
Languages with ɖʐ
0 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.