The voiced retroflex lateral fricative is a type of
consonant
In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract, except for the h sound, which is pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract. Examples are and pronou ...
al sound. The 'implicit'
IPA letter for this sound, ,
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Unicode request for IPA modifier-letters (a), pulmonic is overtly supported by the
extIPA
The Extensions to the International Phonetic Alphabet for Disordered Speech, commonly abbreviated extIPA , are a set of letters and diacritics devised by the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association to augment the Internati ...
.
The sound may also be transcribed as a raised approximant, .
Features
Features of the voiced retroflex lateral fricative:
Occurrence
See also
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Index of phonetics articles
A
* Acoustic phonetics
* Active articulator
* Affricate
* Airstream mechanism
* Alexander John Ellis
* Alexander Melville Bell
* Alfred C. Gimson
* Allophone
* Alveolar approximant ()
* Alveolar click ()
* Alveolar consonant
* Alveolar ej ...
Notes
References
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Lateral consonants
Fricative consonants
Pulmonic consonants
Voiced oral consonants
Retroflex consonants