The voiceless retroflex lateral fricative is a type of
consonant
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al sound, used in some
spoken language
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s. 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 ...
.
Some scholars posit a voiceless retroflex lateral approximant distinct from the fricative. The approximant may be represented in the IPA as .
Features
Features of the voiceless retroflex lateral fricative:
Occurrence
See also
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Index of phonetics articles
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* 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
Voiceless oral consonants
Retroflex consonants
Voiceless lateral approximants