Voiced velar lateral fricative

The voiced velar lateral fricative is a very rare consonantal sound that can be found in Archi, a Northeast Caucasian language of Dagestan, in which it is clearly a fricative, although further forward than velars in most languages, and might better be called prevelar.[1]

Voiced velar lateral fricative
ʟ̝
𝼄̬
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It occurs as an intervocalic allophone of /𝼄/ in Nii and perhaps some related Wahgi languages of New Guinea.[citation needed]

The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that traditionally represents this sound is ⟨ʟ̝⟩, though in extIPA𝼄̬⟩ is preferred. The two symbols are equivalent.

Features

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Features of the voiced velar lateral fricative:

Occurrence

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Language Word IPA Meaning Notes
Archi[1] наӏлъдут [naˤʟ̝dut] 'blue' Prevelar.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "The Archi Language Tutorial" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-04. Retrieved 2009-12-23. (The source uses the symbol for the voiced alveolar lateral fricative, ⟨ɮ⟩, but also notes that the sound to be prevelar.)