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RTR

RTR is the initialism of retracted tongue root.

Meaning of retracted tongue root

Noun

retracted tongue root (plural retracted tongue roots)

  1. (attributive, often) An articulation involving retraction of the tongue root.
    • The high back retracted tongue root vowel is always further back than its counterpart, rather than further forward, as is the case for the traditional lax back vowels.1996, Peter Ladefoged, Ian Maddieson, The Sounds of the World's Languages

Questions about RTR

What is RTR the initialism of?
RTR is the initialism of retracted tongue root.

Words near RTR in the dictionary

  1. RtoL
  2. RTOS
  3. RTOSes
  4. RTP
  5. rtPA
  6. RTR
  7. rts
  8. RTSed
  9. RTSes
  10. RTSing
  11. RTSP

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Adapted from Wiktionary: RTR (page history and authors); retracted tongue root (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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