Re: retroflex consonants

Danny Wier scripsit:

> 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.?
The Indic languages have them, but probably borrowed them from the surrounding
Dravidian languages.

They have developed within historic times in Scandinavia from /rC/.

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