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 | |
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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 extIPA ⟨𝼄̬⟩ is preferred. The two symbols are equivalent.
Features of the voiced velar lateral fricative:
Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
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Archi[1] | наӏлъдут | [naˤʟ̝dut] | 'blue' | Prevelar.[1] |