Velar lateral approximant
| Voiced velar lateral approximant | |||
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| ʟ | |||
| IPA number | 158 | ||
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| Entity (decimal) | ʟ |
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| Unicode (hex) | U+029F | ||
| X-SAMPA | L\ |
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| Kirshenbaum | L |
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The voiced velar lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound, used in a very small number of spoken languages in the world. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ʟ⟩ (since 1989) and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is L\.
The velar laterals of the world often involve a prestopped realization [ɡ͡ʟ].
Features of the velar lateral approximant:
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