Re: OT: Help reading Indic transliteration?

Quoting "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>:

> On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 09:48:39PM +0100, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> > Damn. I've been misusing the CXS here, I see. So just have is one supposed
> to
> > be indicating a retroflex trill?
>
> Good question.  There's no IPA symbol defined for it, but it's not
> greyed out, so it's not considered impossible . . . just unattested
> as a distinct phoneme, perhaps?
Never heard of any lang contrasting it with an alveolar trill or retroflex
approximant/fricative. But that's not necessarily saying much.

The place to look may be southern India - IIRC, Tamil distinguishes dental,
alveolar and retroflex stops.

                                                     Andreas