Voiced palatal lateral fricative

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Voiced palatal lateral fricative
ʎ̝
IPA Number 157 429
Encoding
X-SAMPA L_r

The voiced palatal lateral fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ʎ̝⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is L_r.

It is not known to occur as a phoneme in any language.

Features

Features of the voiced palatal lateral fricative:

Occurrence

Language Word IPA Meaning Notes
Italian Many accents[1] figlio [ˈfiʎ̝ːo] 'son' Approximant [ʎ] in other accents. See Italian phonology
Jebero[2] [iˈʎ̝apa] 'shotgun' Dentoalveolo-palatal. Occasional allophone of /ʎ/; only lightly fricated.[2]

See also

References

  1. Ashby (2011:64): "(...) in a large number of Italian accents, there is considerable friction involved in the pronunciation of [ʎ], creating a voiced palatal lateral fricative (for which there is no established IPA symbol)."
  2. 2.0 2.1 Valenzuela & Gussenhoven (2013), p. 101.

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