The alveolar lateral ejective affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨t͡ɬʼ⟩ (or ⟨tɬʼ⟩), and in Americanist phonetic notation it is ⟨ƛʼ⟩ (lambda bar).
Alveolar lateral ejective affricate | |
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tɬʼ | |
IPA Number | 103 (148) 401 |
Also | ƛ’ |
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Encoding | |
Entity (decimal) | t͡ɬʼ |
Unicode (hex) | U+0074 U+0361 U+026C U+02BC |
Features of the alveolar lateral ejective affricate:
Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
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Avar | кьалаб | ⓘ | 'hostile' | ||
Haida | sttluujagadang | [st͡ɬʼuːt͡ʃakataŋ] | 'Sapsucker' | ||
Iraqw[1] | hatlʼáʼ | [hat͡ɬʼáʔ] | 'other' | ||
Kabardian | Baslaney | лӏы | ⓘ | 'man' | Corresponds to [ɬʼ] in other dialects. |
Klallam | ƛ̕əm̕éʔqʷnəxʷ | [t͡ɬʼ(ə)ˈmˀeʔqʷn(ə)xʷ] | 'to accidentally bump one's head' | ||
Lillooet | st'át'imcets | [ˈst͡ɬʼæt͡ɬʼjəmxət͡ʃ] | 'Lilooet language' | ||
Navajo | tłʼóoʼdi | ⓘ | '(at) the outside' | ||
Sahaptin | mɨƛ’ɨƛ’k | [mɨˈt͡ɬʼɨt͡ɬʼk] | 'mud' | ||
Sechelt | ch'álhch'ílh | [tʃʼat͡ɬ.tʃʼet͡ɬ] | 'robin' | ||
Tlingit | tlʼeex | ⓘ | 'garbage' | ||
Lushootseed | sq̓aƛ̕ | [sqʼɑt͡ɬʼ] | 'otter' | ||
Tsez | кьиш | ⓘ | 'splinter' |
Proto-Semitic *ṣ́ is believed to have been an alveolar lateral ejective affricate.