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Voiced alveolar lateral flap

Consonantal sounds represented by ⟨ɺ⟩ in IPA

Summary

Consonantal sounds represented by ⟨ɺ⟩ in IPA

FieldValue
ipa number181
ipa symbolɺ
decimal634
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braille236braille2=number
imagefileIPA Unicode 0x027A.svg

A voiced alveolar lateral flap is a type of consonantal sound, found in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , a fusion of a rotated lowercase letter with a letter . Approved in 1928, the symbol represented a sound intermediate between and or between and until 1979, when its value was redefined as an alveolar lateral flap.

Some languages that are described as having a lateral flap actually have a flap that is indeterminate with respect to centrality, and may surface as either central or lateral, either in free variation or allophonically depending on surrounding vowels and consonants.

Voiced postalveolar lateral flapAdditionally, some languages have a voiced postalveolar lateral flap, which can be transcribed in the IPA with the retracted diacritic, such as .

Features

Features of a voiced alveolar lateral flap:

Occurrence

Alveolar

LanguageWordIPAMeaningNotes
Baniwariwadzore'ember'Varies a median flap, but is lateral in careful pronunciation.
Chaga (Vunjo dialect)iraa'to dress oneself'Contrasts with
Iwaidja*ayanjildin*'sweetheart'Contrasts and possibly .
Japanese六 *roku*'six'Allophonically . See Japanese phonology
心 *kokoro*'heart'
Kasuahilila'heavy'Never used at the beginning nor the end of a word.
Wayuupüülükü'pig'Contrasts with .
YalëYalë'Yalë'In free variation with ; written as or .

Postalveolar

LanguageWordIPAMeaningNotes
Amis{{saltillo}}u{{saltillo}}ul'fog'Has a vowel-like release when word final.
Norwegianlast=Grønnumfirst=Ninayear=2005title=Fonetik og fonologi, Almen og Danskedition=3rdpublisher=Akademisk Forlagplace=Copenhagenpage=155isbn=87-500-3865-6url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9RtCAgAAQBAJ}}glas'glass'

Notes

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  4. (October 1995). "Fieldwork Studies of Targeted Languages III".
  5. Grønnum, Nina. (2005). "Fonetik og fonologi, Almen og Dansk". Akademisk Forlag.
  6. Heide, Eldar. (2010). "Tjukk l – Retroflektert tydeleggjering av kort kvantitet. Om kvalitetskløyvinga av det gamle kvantitetssystemet.". Novus forlag.
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