Voiced dental and alveolar lateral fricatives

Voiced alveolar lateral fricative
ɮ
IPA number 149
Encoding
Entity (decimal) ɮ
Unicode (hex) U+026E
X-SAMPA K\
Kirshenbaum z<lat>
Braille ⠇ (braille pattern dots-123)⠐ (braille pattern dots-5)⠮ (braille pattern dots-2346)
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The voiced alveolar lateral fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents voiced dental, alveolar, and postalveolar lateral fricatives is ɮ, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is K\.

Features

Features of the voiced alveolar lateral fricative:

Occurrence

Dental or denti-alveolar

Language Word IPA Meaning Notes
Amis Kangko accent Interdental [ɮ̪͆]

Alveolar

Language Word IPA Meaning Notes
Adyghe къалэ  [qaːɮa]  'town' Can also be pronounced as [l]
Bura[1] Contrasts with [l] and [ʎ̝̊].[1]
Kabardian блы  [bɮə]  'seven' Can also be pronounced as [l]
Ket
Mongolian долоо [tɔɮɔː] 'seven' Sometimes realized as [l]
Sassarese a caldhu  [ˈkaɮdu]  'hot'
Tera[2] dlepti [ɮè̞pti] 'planting'
Zulu[3] indlala [ínˈɮàlà] 'hunger'

In addition, a pharyngealized voiced alveolar lateral fricative  [ɮˤ]  is reconstructed to be the ancient Classical Arabic pronunciation of Ḍād; the letter is now pronounced in Modern Standard Arabic as a pharyngealized voiced coronal stop, either alveolar [dˤ] or denti-alveolar [ˤ].

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