Retroflex consonant, also referred to as a cerebral consonant, a type of consonant sound used in some languages
Furthermore, it is one of the few Australian languages with fully functioning voiced-voiceless distinctions (p/b, t/d, s/z, k/g, th/dh) - and one of the few without retroflex stops.
The digraphs cz, dż, sz, ż are pronounced in a different manner from their Polish counterparts – they are postalveolar, not retroflex – but "rz" is pronounced exactly the same as in Polish.
Their meaning remains the most controversial aspect of rime table phonology, but is believed to indicate palatalization (transcribed as the presence or absence of -j- or -i-), retroflex features, vowel quality (high vs. low or front vs. back) or some combination of these.
Depending on the position where the tongue articulates speech, there are a number of classes of sounds: velar, palatal, cerebral, dental and labial.
Retroflex consonants were not present in the Persian alphabet, and therefore had to be created specifically for Urdu.
Retroflex consonant | Fricative consonant | consonant | click consonant | coronal consonant | Tenuis consonant | stop consonant | High German consonant shift | Glottal consonant | Dorsal consonant | Coronal consonant | Click consonant |