Editing Postalveolar consonant (section)

===Non-palatalized (retroflex)===
Retroflex stops, nasals and laterals (like {{IPA|[ʈ ɳ ɭ]}}) occur in a number of languages across the world such as in [[South Asian languages]] such as [[Hindi]] and various [[East Asian languages]] such as [[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]]. The sounds are fairly rare in European languages but occur, for example, in [[Swedish language|Swedish]]; they are then often considered to be [[allophone]]s of sequences such as {{IPA|/rn/}} or {{IPA|/rt/}}. Also, for some languages that distinguish "dental" vs. "alveolar" stops and nasals, they are actually articulated nearer to prealveolar and postalveolar, respectively.

The normal [[rhotic consonant]] (''r''-sound) in [[English language|English]] is a [[postalveolar approximant]] {{IPA|[ɹ̠]}}). In some dialects of American English, this may either be a [[voiced velar bunched approximant|velar bunched approximant]] {{IPA|[ɹ̈]}} or a [[retroflex approximant]] {{IPA|[ɻ]}}. Retroflex rhotics of various sorts, especially [[approximant consonant|approximant]]s and [[flap consonant|flap]]s occur commonly in the world's languages. Some languages also have retroflex trills. <!--[[Tamil language|Tamil]] and [[Malayalam language|Malayalam]] have two trills, at least for many speakers, {{IPA|[r̟]}} vs. {{IPA|[r̠]}}, the latter of which being retroflex.--> [[Toda language|Toda]] is particularly unusual in that it has ''six'' trills, including a palatalized/non-palatalized distinction and a three-way place distinction among dental, alveolar and retroflex trills.