Voiced palatal lateral flap explained

Ipa Symbol:ʎ̆

The voiced palatal lateral flap is a rare type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. There is no dedicated symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound. However, the symbol for a palatal lateral approximant with a breve denoting extra-short (IPA|ʎ̆) may be used.

Features

Features of the voiced palatal lateral flap:

Occurrence

The Iwaidja and Ilgar languages of Australia have a palatal lateral flap as well as alveolar and retroflex lateral flaps. However, the palatal flap has not been shown to be phonemic; it may instead be an underlying sequence pronounced as //ɺj//.

!Language! Word! IPA! Meaning! Notes
Ilgarpronounced as /[miʎ̆arɡu]/MildyagruLikely an underlying sequence of pronounced as //ɺj//. Contrasts pronounced as //l, ɺ, ɭ, //.
IwaidjaContrasts pronounced as //l, ɺ, ɭ, // and possibly pronounced as //ʎ, ʎ̆//, though those are likely to be underlying sequences of pronounced as //Lj//.

References

pronounced as /navigation/