| Ipa Symbol: | tɬ |
| Ipa Symbol3: | ƛ |
| Ipa Number: | 103 (148) |
| Decimal1: | 116 |
| Decimal2: | 865 |
| Decimal3: | 620 |
| Imagefile: | Voiceless alveolar lateral affricate.svg |
The voiceless alveolar lateral affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet is (IPA|t͡ɬ) (often simplified to (IPA|tɬ)), and in Americanist phonetic notation it is (ƛ) (barred lambda).
Features of the voiceless alveolar lateral affricate:
| Family | Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semitic | Arabic | Levantine | Arabic: ثلاثة/tlete | 'three' | Allophone of /tl/ | ||
| Northeast Caucasian | Avar | Avaric: [[Avar_language#Writing_systems|'''лӀ'''угьине]]/Avaric: '''Ļ'''uhine/Avaric: '''ڸ'''ۇھێنې | pronounced as /[t͡ɬ:uhine]/ | 'to become' | |||
| Iroquoian | Cherokee | Otali | Cherokee: '''Ꮭ'''/Cherokee: '''tl'''a | pronounced as /[t͡ɬa]/ | 'no' | ||
| Chukotko-Kamchatkan | Chukchi | Ԓыгъоравэ'''тԓ'''ьэн | pronounced as /[ɬəɣˀorawetɬˀɛn]/ | 'Chukchi' | |||
| Isolate | Haida | Haida: '''tl'''a'únhl | pronounced as /[t͡ɬʌʊ́nɬ]/ | 'six' | |||
| Semitic | Hebrew | Hebrew: '''תל'''ונה/'''tl'''una | pronounced as /[ˈt͡ɬuna]/ | 'complaint' | Pronunciation of /tl/ sequence by some speakers. | ||
| Germanic | Icelandic | Icelandic: [[Icelandic orthography|bo'''ll'''i]] | pronounced as /[ˈpɔt͡ɬɪ]/ | 'cup' | See Icelandic phonology. | ||
| Romance | Ladin | '''tl'''o | pronounced as /[t͡ɬo]/ | 'here' | Gherdëina variant | ||
| Uto-Aztecan | Nahuatl | Nahuatl languages: [[Nahuatl orthography|Nahua'''tl''']] | 'Nahuatl language' | ||||
| Hmongic | Pa Na | pronounced as /[t͡ɬa˧˥]/ | 'frost' | ||||
| Plateau-Penutian | Sahaptin | pronounced as /[t͡ɬupt]/ | 'jumping' | ||||
| Romance | Spanish | Mexican | Spanish; Castilian: [[Spanish orthography|Xóchi'''tl''']] | pronounced as /[ˈʃo̞t͡ʃit͡ɬ]/ | 'Xóchitl' | See Spanish phonology. | |
| Na-Dene | Tlingit | Tlingit: [[Tlingit alphabet|'''tl'''eilóo]] | 'butterfly' | Distinguishes aspirated and unaspirated | |||
| Northeast Caucasian | Tsez | [[Cyrillic script|э'''лI'''ни]]/ | pronounced as /[ˈʔɛ̝t͡ɬni]/ | 'winter' | |||
| Bantu | Tswana | Tswana: '''tl'''ala | pronounced as /[t͡ɬala]/ | 'hunger' | |||
pronounced as /navigation/