| Above: | Voiced retroflex lateral flap |
| Ipa Symbol2: | ɭ̆ |
| Ipa Symbol3: | ɺ̣ |
| Decimal: | 122632 |
| Imagefile: | IPA Unicode 0x1DF08.svg |
The voiced retroflex lateral flap is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The 'implicit' symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet is
(IPA| ).[1] The sound may also be transcribed as a short (IPA|ɭ̆ ), or with the retired IPA dot diacritic, (IPA|ɺ̣).Features of the voiced retroflex lateral flap:
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ilgar | Contrasts /l, ɺ, ɭ,  / and possibly /ʎ, ʎ̆/, though the last are likely underlying sequences of /lj, ɺj/. | |||||
| Iwaidja | pronounced as /[ŋauli]/ | 'my foot' | Contrasts /l, ɺ, ɭ,  / and possibly /ʎ, ʎ̆/, though the last are likely underlying sequences of /lj, ɺj/. | |||
| Kannada | ಕೇಳಿ/Kēḷi | pronounced as /[keːi]/ | 'to ask' | Can be an approximant pronounced as /link/ instead. | ||
| Kobon | ƚawƚ | pronounced as /[aw ]/ | 'to shoot' | Subapical. | ||
| Konkani | फळ/fāḷ | pronounced as /[fə ]/ | 'fruit' | |||
| Kresh[2] | — | — | ||||
| Malayalam | വേളി/vēḷi | pronounced as /[veːi]/ | 'marriage' | Can be an approximant pronounced as /link/ instead. | ||
| Marathi | केळी/Kēḷī | pronounced as /[keiː]/ | 'bananas' | See Marathi phonology | ||
| Tarama & Irabu[3] | — | pronounced as /[paɨ ]/ | 'to pull' | |||
| Norwegian | Trøndersk | Norwegian: [[Norwegian alphabet|g'''l'''as]] | pronounced as /[ˈɡɺ̠ɑːs]/ | 'glass' | Apical postalveolar; also described as central pronounced as /link/. See Norwegian phonology | |
| O'odham | — | — | Apical postalveolar. | |||
| Pashto[4] [5] | /llund | pronounced as /[und]/ | 'blind' | Contrasts plain and nasalized flaps. Tend to be lateral at the beginning of a prosodic unit, and a central flap pronounced as /[ɽ]/ or approximant pronounced as /[ɻ ]/ elsewhere. | ||
| Tamil | குளி/Kuḷi | pronounced as /[ˈkui]/ | 'bathe' | Allophone of pronounced as //ɭ //. See Tamil phonology | ||
| Telugu | పెళ్ళి/Pelli | pronounced as /[ˈpei]/ | 'Marriage' | Allophone of pronounced as //ɭ //. See Telugu phonology | ||
| Tarahumara | Western Rarámuri | — | — | Often transcribed pronounced as // //.[6] | ||
| Totoli[7] | — | pronounced as /[uaɡ]/ | 'snake' | Allophone of pronounced as //ɺ// after back vowels. | ||
| Tukang Besi | — | — | Possible allophone of pronounced as //l// after back vowels, as well as an allophone of pronounced as //r//. | |||
| Wayuu | laülaa | pronounced as /[áɨaa]/ | 'old man' | postalveolar? | ||
| Chadian dialects | Beri | pronounced as /[bei]/ | 'Zaghawa' | |||
A retroflex lateral flap has been reported from various languages of Sulawesi such as the Sangiric languages, Buol and Totoli,[8] as well as Nambikwara in Brazil (plain and laryngealized), Gaagudju in Australia, Purépecha and Western Rarámuri in Mexico, Moro in Sudan, O'odham and Mohawk in the United States, Chaga in Tanzania, and Kanuri in Nigeria.
Various Dravidian and Indo-Aryan languages of Indian subcontinent are reported to have a retroflex lateral flap, either phonemically or phonetically, including Gujarati, Konkani, Marathi, Odia, and Rajasthani. Masica describes the sound as widespread in the Indic languages of India:
pronounced as /navigation/