Voiceless retroflex lateral fricative

The voiceless retroflex lateral fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The IPA has no symbol for this sound. However, the "belt" of the voiceless lateral fricative is combined with the tail of the retroflex consonants to create the extIPA letter  :

Voiceless retroflex lateral fricative
ɭ̊˔
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In 2008, the Unicode Technical Committee accepted the letter as U+A78E LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH RETROFLEX HOOK AND BELT (HTML ꞎ), included in Unicode 6.0.

Features

Features of the voiceless retroflex lateral fricative:

  • Its phonation is voiceless, which means it is produced without vibrations of the vocal cords.
  • It is an oral consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth only.
  • It is a lateral consonant, which means it is produced by directing the airstream over the sides of the tongue, rather than down the middle.

Occurrence

Language IPA Meaning Notes
Toda[1] [pʏːꞎ] 'summer'
gollark: Just grow them externally.
gollark: Are you sure? People also want children so they can indoctrinate them and such.
gollark: Demonstrably false, some people adopt children.
gollark: What if the kids collude to do [REDACTED]?
gollark: It sounds unpleasant.

See also

References

  1. "Toda". The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. UCLA Department of Linguistics. 2007. Archived from the original on 2012-02-17. Retrieved 2009-09-28. —See #20 in the word list and the word list (TIF). The sound file (WAV) is also available.
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