Assertion: velar consonant | /r/HasProperty | rare
Facets:
value: in african languages
type: LOCATION
value: relatively
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Retroflex consonants are relatively rare among European languages but are used in such languages as Swedish and Norwegian in Northern Europe, some Romance languages of Southern Europe (Sardinian, Sicilian, including Calabrian and Salentino, some Italian dialects such as Lunigianese in Italy, and some Asturian dialects in Spain), and (sibilants only) Faroese and several Slavic languages (Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak and Sorbian).
text: In African languages retroflex consonants are also rare, reportedly occurring in a few Nilo-Saharan languages, as well as in the Bantu language Makhuwa and some other varieties.