Voiced dental and alveolar lateral fricatives

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Voiced dental and alveolar lateral fricatives
ɮ
IPA Number 149
Encoding
Entity (decimal) ɮ
Unicode (hex) U+026E
X-SAMPA K\
Braille ⠇ (braille pattern dots-123) ⠐ (braille pattern dots-5) ⠮ (braille pattern dots-2346)

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 <phonos file="къалэ.ogg">[qaːɮa]</phonos> 'town' Can also be pronounced as [l]
Bura[1] [example needed] Contrasts with [ɬ] and [ʎ̝̊].[1]
Kabardian блы <phonos file="lh2.ogg">[bɮə]</phonos> 'seven' Can also be pronounced as [l]
Ket [example needed]
Mongolian долоо [tɔɮɔː] 'seven' Sometimes realized as [ɬ]
Sassarese a caldhu <phonos file="caldhu.wav">[ˈkaɮdu]</phonos> 'hot'
Tera[2] dlepti [ɮè̞pti] 'planting'
Zulu[3] indlala [ínˈɮàlà] 'hunger'

In addition, a pharyngealized voiced alveolar lateral fricative <phonos file="Voiced pharyngealized alveolar lateral fricative.ogg">[ɮˤ]</phonos> 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].

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Grønnum (2005:154–155)
  2. Tench (2007), p. 228.
  3. Ladefoged (2005:170)

Bibliography

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