Deaf retroflex sybilant

A deaf, retroflex spirant is a consonant sound that is present in some languages (for example, in Russian: [sh]).

Properties

The method of formation is a whistling fricative , which means that the air stream must be released through a narrow channel, causing high-frequency jitter.
At the place of education, the consonant is retroflex , which means that the sound is made with the tip of the tongue slightly bent, or that the consonant is postalveolar, but without palatalization. That is, in addition to the pronunciation itself with the bent tip of the tongue, the contact can also be apical (with a pointed tip) and laminar (flat).
The sound is muffled , which means that when you pronounce it, the vocal cords are relaxed.
This is an oral consonant , which means that sound passes only through the mouth .
The consonant is central , that is, the air stream passes in the center of the tongue, and not on the sides.
The mechanism of formation of an air stream is expiratory pulmonary, which means that sound is produced by expelling air from the lungs through the vocal tract , and not through the glottis or mouth.

In the transcriptions given, diacritics can be used to distinguish between apical [ʂ̺] and laminar [ʂ̻] .

Tongue		The word	MFA	Transfer
Abkhazian		am sh	[amʂ]	'day'
Adyghe		p sh	[pʂaːʂa]	'girl'
Chinese	North Chinese	石 w and	[ʂ̺ɻ̩˧˥]	'a rock'
Faroese		fý rs	[fʊʂ]	'eighty'
Malayalam		കഷ്ടി	[käʂʈi]	'scarce'
Norwegian		fo rs amling	[fɔʂɑmːlɪŋ]	'collection'
Pashto	southern dialect	ښودل	[ʂ̺odəl]	'show'
Polish ^[1]		sz um	[ˈꟅ̻um] listen	'noise'
Russian ^[1]		w ut	[ʂut̪ʰ]	'jester'
Sicilian		str ata	[ˈꟅːaːta]	'the outside'
Slovak ^[2]		š atka	[ˈꟅatka]	'scarf'
Swedish		fo rs	[fɔʂ]	'rapids'
Telugu		అభిలాషి	[ʌbʱilaːʂi]	'one who desires'
Vietnamese	southern dialects ^[3]	s ữa	[ʂɨə˧ˀ˥]	'milk'
Nose		ꏂ sh y	[ʂ̺ɿ˧]	'gold'

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