# Retroflex ejective stop

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A **retroflex ejective** is a rare [consonantal](/source/Consonant) sound, used in some [spoken](/source/Speech_communication) [languages](/source/Language). The symbol in the [International Phonetic Alphabet](/source/International_Phonetic_Alphabet) that represents this sound is .

## Features

Features of a retroflex ejective stop:

## Occurrence

Language Word IPA Meaning Notes English Indian[citation needed] beet [biːʈʼ] 'beet' This sound usually occurs at the end of a phrase as an allophone of /t/. Yokuts Wukchumni[1] ṭʼa∙yʼ [ʈʼaːjˀ] 'down feather' Phonemically distinct, not found in other Yokuts dialects

## See also

- [Index of phonetics articles](/source/Index_of_phonetics_articles)

## References

1. Gamble, Geoffrey (1978). *Wikchamni Grammar*. Berkeley / Los Angeles: University of California Publications in Linguistics, 89.

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