Voiced palatal lateral fricative

Voiced palatal lateral fricative
ʎ̝
𝼆̬
IPA number157 429
Encoding
X-SAMPAL_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⟩, though in extIPA ⟨𝼆̬⟩ is preferred. The equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is L_r.

This sound is not known to occur as a phoneme in any language, but it does occur as an allophone of /ʎ/ in Italian, Spanish and Jebero.

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