Re: sound change question

>'L' and 'R' can be turned into a retroflexed 'l' and 'r'. I like these
>sounds. These are produced with the tongue coiled backward, though you may
>need some practice.
>
>Or it can be changed to a special 'rh' and 'dh' sounds found in Indian
>languages. Refer to the consonants r(underlined) and d(underlined) on my
If I remember my Indic sound change patterns, the retroflexed liquids of,
say, Hindi, are all contextual variants of things that are either not
liquid or not retroflex - the retroflex series, remember, was at one point
or another an allophonic variant of the dental series (in contact with
front vowels?)  The retroflex taps, which is what I assume you're talking
about, are lenited variants of the voiced retroflex stops, rather than
variants of the other Hindi liquids.

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Shreyas Sampat