Alveolar lateral flap
| Alveolar lateral flap | |||
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| ɺ | |||
| lɾ | |||
| IPA number | 181 | ||
| Encoding | |||
| Entity (decimal) | ɺ |
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| Unicode (hex) | U+027A | ||
| X-SAMPA | l\ |
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| Kirshenbaum | *<lat> |
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| Postalveolar lateral flap | |
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| ɺ̠ | |
| IPA number | 181 414 |
| Encoding | |
| Unicode (hex) | U+027A U+0320 |
The alveolar lateral flap is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ɺ⟩, a fusion of a rotated lowercase letter ⟨r⟩ with a letter ⟨l⟩.
Some languages that are described as having a lateral flap, such as Japanese, actually have a flap that is indeterminate with respect to centrality, and may surface as either central or lateral, either in free variation or allophonically depending on surrounding vowels and consonants.
Features of the alveolar lateral flap:
The variable Japanese sound has been transcribed with an l–ɾ ligature, lɾ.
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