| Ipa Symbol: | ɮ |
| Ipa Number: | 149 |
| Decimal: | 622 |
| X-Sampa: | K\ |
| Kirshenbaum: | z<lat> |
| Braille: | l |
| Braille2: | 5 |
| Braille3: | 2346 |
| Imagefile: | IPA Unicode 0x026E.svg |
The voiced alveolar lateral fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents voiced dental, alveolar, and postalveolar lateral fricatives is (IPA|ɮ) (sometimes referred to as lezh), and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is K\.
Features of the voiced alveolar lateral fricative:
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adyghe | Kabardian: [[Cyrillic script|къа'''л'''э]] | 'town' | Can also be pronounced as pronounced as /link/ | |||
| Arabic | Classical Arabic | الأَرضِ | 'the earth' | |||
| Bura | Contrasts with pronounced as /link/ and pronounced as /link/. | |||||
| English | South African | ibandla | 'meeting of a Nguni chief or community' | Only found in Zulu loan words in South African English. | ||
| Kabardian | Kabardian: [[Cyrillic script|б'''л'''ы]] | 'seven' | Can also be pronounced as pronounced as /link/ | |||
| Ket | [[Cyrillic script|о'''л'''ын]] | 'nose' | Can also be pronounced as pronounced as /link/ | |||
| Moloko | '''zl'''an | pronounced as /[ɮàŋ]/ | 'start, begin' | Contrasts with pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/ and pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Mongolian | Mongolian: [[Cyrillic script|монго'''л''']] | in Mongolian pronounced as /mɔɴɢɔ̆ɮ/ | 'Mongol' | Sometimes realized as pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Sassarese | caldhu | 'hot' | ||||
| Tera | '''dl'''epti''' | pronounced as /[ɮè̞pti]/ | 'planting' | Contrasts with both pronounced as /link/ and pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Zulu | Zulu: [[Zulu alphabet|uku'''dl'''a]] | pronounced as /[úɠù:ɮá]/ | 'to eat' | Contrasts with both pronounced as /link/ and pronounced as /link/; realized as pronounced as /link/ after nasals | ||
In addition, a pharyngealized voiced alveolar lateral fricative is reconstructed to be the ancient Classical Arabic pronunciation of ; the letter is now pronounced in Modern Standard Arabic as a pharyngealized voiced coronal stop, as alveolar pronounced as /link/ or denti-alveolar pronounced as /link/.
| Ipa Symbol: | ʫ |
| Ipa Symbol2: | ð̠ˡ |
| Ipa Symbol3: | ɮ͡ð̠ |
| Ipa Symbol4: | ɮ͡z |
| Above: | Voiceless dental lateral–median fricative |
| Ipa Symbol: | ʫ̪ |
| Ipa Symbol2: | ðˡ |
| Ipa Symbol3: | ɮ̪͡ð |
The voiced alveolar non-sibilant fricative (also known as a "lisp" fricative) is a consonantal sound. Consonants is pronounced with simultaneous lateral and central airflow.
However, it does not have the grooved tongue and directed airflow, or the high frequencies, of a sibilant.
| Language | Word | Meaning | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic[1] [2] [3] | Rijal Almaʽa | Arabic: '''ض'''بع | pronounced as /[ðˡˤabʕ]/ | 'hyena' | ||
| Mehri[4] | '''ذ'''وفر | pronounced as /[ðˡˤoːfar]/ | 'plait' | |||
There are several Unicode characters based on lezh (ɮ):
In 1938, a symbol shaped similarly to heng (IPA|ꜧ) was approved as the official IPA symbol for the voiced alveolar lateral fricative, replacing (IPA|ɮ). It was suggested at the same time, however, that a compromise shaped like something between the two may also be used at the author's discretion. It was this compromise version that was included in the 1949 Principles of the International Phonetic Association and the subsequent IPA charts, until it was replaced again by (IPA|ɮ) at the 1989 Kiel Convention.[8] Despite the Association's prescription, (IPA|ɮ) is nonetheless seen in literature from the 1960s to the 1980s.[9] [10] [11] [12] [13]
pronounced as /navigation/