Re: retroflex consonants

Daniel Wier wrote:
>Danny Wier wrote:
>
> > Which languages around the world and in conlangs have retroflexes, how
>did
> > they develop, and how do they contrast phonemically with dentals,
>alveolars,
> > palatoalveolars, etc.?
>
>Swedish has retroflex consonants, except the southern dialects. They come
>from r + dentals.
>
>r + t => t`
>r + d => d`
>r + n => n`
>r + s => s`
>r + l => l`
>
>They contrast phonemically with the dental series.
They're traditionally, however, phonemicized as /r/+dental, and they are
written as clusters. And the sound change is still active - a loaword in -r
will get a genitive in -s`, for instance.

BTW, my 'lect lacks [l`], having pure dental [l] in words like _jarl_ [jA:l]
"earl", or a cluster in Daniel's example _porla_ [po:r`la].


                                                                     Andreas

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