The voiceless alveolar lateral affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet is ⟨t͡ɬ⟩ (often simplified to ⟨tɬ⟩), and in Americanist phonetic notation it is ⟨ƛ⟩ (barred lambda).
Voiceless alveolar lateral affricate | |||
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tɬ | |||
ƛ | |||
IPA Number | 103 (148) | ||
Audio sample | |||
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Encoding | |||
Entity (decimal) | t͡ɬ | ||
Unicode (hex) | U+0074 U+0361 U+026C | ||
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Features of the voiceless alveolar lateral affricate:
Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
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Arabic | Levantine | ثلاثة/tlete | [t͡ɬe̞ːte̞] | 'three' | Allophone of /tl/ |
Avar | лӀугьине | [t͡ɬ:uhine] | 'to become' | ||
Cherokee | Otali | tla | [t͡ɬa] | 'no' | |
Chukchi | Ԓыгъоравэтԓьэн | [ɬəɣˀorawetɬˀɛn] | 'Chukchi' | ||
Haida | tla'únhl | [t͡ɬʌʊ́nɬ] | 'six' | ||
Hebrew | תלונה/tluna | [ˈt͡ɬuna] | 'complaint' | Pronunciation of /tl/ sequence by some speakers. | |
Icelandic | bolli | [ˈpɔt͡ɬɪ] | 'cup' | See Icelandic phonology. | |
Ladin | tlo | [t͡ɬo] | 'here' | Gherdëina variant | |
Nahuatl | Nahuatl | ⓘ | 'Nahuatl language' | ||
Pa Na | [t͡ɬa˧˥] | 'frost' | |||
Sahaptin | [t͡ɬupt] | 'jumping' | |||
Spanish | Mexican[1] | Xóchitl | [ˈʃo̞t͡ʃit͡ɬ] | 'Xóchitl' | See Spanish phonology. |
Tlingit[2] | tleilóo | ⓘ | 'butterfly' | Distinguishes aspirated and unaspirated | |
Tsez | элIни/eƛni | [ˈʔɛ̝t͡ɬni] | 'winter' | ||
Tswana | tlala | [t͡ɬala] | 'hunger' |