| Ipa Symbol: | k |
| Ipa Symbol2: | kʟ̝̊ |
The voiceless velar lateral affricate is a relatively uncommon speech sound found as a phoneme in the Caucasus and as an allophone in several languages of eastern and southern Africa. In strict IPA, it needs to be transcribed with diacritics, but a proper letter exists in extIPA: (k͜).
Archi, a Northeast Caucasian language of Dagestan, has two such affricates, plain pronounced as /[k]/ and labialized pronounced as /[kʷ]/, though they are further forward than velars in most languages, and might better be called prevelar. Archi also has ejective variants of its lateral affricates, several voiceless lateral fricatives, and a voiced lateral fricative at the same place of articulation, but no alveolar lateral fricatives or affricates.[1]
Zulu and Xhosa have a voiceless lateral affricate as an allophone of their voiceless velar affricate. Hadza has an ejective velar lateral affricate as an allophone of its velar ejective affricate. Indeed, in Hadza this pronounced as /[k͜ʼ]/ contrasts with a palatal lateral ejective affricate, pronounced as /[c͜ʼ]/. ǁXegwi is reported to have contrasted velar pronounced as //k͜// from alveolar pronounced as //t͜ɬ//.
Features of the voiceless velar lateral affricate:
| Language | Word | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [[Cyrillic script|'''лӀ'''он]]/ƛon | pronounced as /[k͜on]/ | 'a flock' | Pre-velar. | |
| Bezhta |
pronounced as /navigation/