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 IPA has no symbol for this sound. However, the "belt" of the voiceless lateral fricative is combined with the tail of the retroflex consonants to create the
extIPA
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letter :
In 2008, the
Unicode Technical Committee
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accepted the letter as , included in Unicode 6.0.
Some scholars also posit the 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 e ...
Notes
References
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Fricative consonants
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