| Voiced alveolar lateral fricative | |||
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| ɮ | |||
| IPA number | 149 | ||
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| Entity (decimal) | ɮ |
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| Unicode (hex) | U+026E | ||
| X-SAMPA | K\ |
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| Kirshenbaum | z<lat> |
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The voiced alveolar lateral fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents voiced dental, alveolar, and postalveolar lateral fricatives is ⟨ɮ⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is K\.
Features of the voiced alveolar lateral fricative:
In addition, a pharyngealized voiced alveolar lateral fricative
[ɮˤ] is reconstructed to be the ancient Classical Arabic pronunciation of Ḍād; the letter is now pronounced in Modern Standard Arabic as a pharyngealized voiced coronal stop, as alveolar [dˤ] or denti-alveolar [d̪ˤ].