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Alveolar lateral ejective fricative

Consonantal sound

Summary

Consonantal sound

Field	Value
above	Alveolar lateral ejective fricative
ipa symbol	ɬʼ
x-sampa	K_

|x-sampa=K_

An alveolar lateral ejective fricative is a type of consonantal sound, reported in the Northwest Caucasian languages and in Modern South Arabian languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is .

Features

Features of an alveolar lateral ejective fricative:

Occurrence

occurs in the reconstructed Proto-Semitic language.

Language	Word	Meaning
Adyghe	лӀы	'man'
Kabardian	плӀы	'four'
Tlingit	lʼook	‘fish’

References

Lyovin, Anatole. (2017). "An Introduction to the Languages of the World". Oxford University Press.
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