The voiceless 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 ⟨ɺ̥⟩, a fusion of a rotated lowercase letter ⟨r⟩ with a letter ⟨l⟩ and a voiceless diacritic.
Voiceless alveolar lateral flap | |
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ɺ̥ | |
IPA Number | 181 |
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Entity (decimal) | ɺ |
Unicode (hex) | U+027A |
X-SAMPA | l\ |
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Features of the voiceless alveolar lateral flap:
Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
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Karu[1] | Hohodene | [ɺ̥je.ˈtɐ̃.hə͂] | 'that' | In alternation with an alveolar tap.[1] Contrasts /ɺ̥, ɺ/. | |
Yavitero[2] | [example needed] | Contrasts /ɾ, r, ɺ̥, ɺ/. |