Voiceless palatal lateral fricative

The voiceless palatal lateral fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The IPA has no dedicated symbol for this sound. The devoicing and raising diacritics may be used to transcribe it, as IPA|<ʎ̥˔>. However, the "belt" on the existing symbol for a voiceless lateral fricative, IPA|<ɬ>, forms the basis for occasional "ad hoc" symbols for the other lateral fricatives, the third one representing the palatal lateral fricative:

Indeed, SIL International has added these symbols to the Private Use Areas of their Charis and Doulos fonts, as U+F267 ().

Features

Features of the voiceless palatal lateral fricative:

* Its manner of articulation is fricative, which means it is produced by constricting air flow through a narrow channel at the place of articulation, causing turbulence.
* Its place of articulation is palatal which means it is articulated with the middle or back part of the tongue raised against the hard palate.
* Its phonation type is voiceless, which means it is produced without vibrations of the vocal cords.
* It is an oral consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth.
* It is a lateral consonant, which means it is produced by allowing the airstream to flow over the sides of the tongue, rather than the middle of the tongue.
* The airstream mechanism is pulmonic egressive, which means it is articulated by pushing air out of the lungs and through the vocal tract, rather than from the glottis or the mouth.

Occurrence

ee also

*List of phonetics topics