Voiced retroflex lateral approximant

The voiced retroflex lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is Template:Angbr IPA, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is l`.

The retroflex lateral approximant contrasts phonemically with its voiceless counterpart in Iaai and Toda.Template:Sfnp In both of these languages it also contrasts with more anterior , which are dental in Iaai and alveolar in Toda.Template:Sfnp

Features

Features of the voiced retroflex lateral approximant:

Occurrence

In the following transcriptions, diacritics may be used to distinguish between apical and laminal .

Language		Word	IPA	Meaning	Notes
Bashkir			{{errorTemplate:Main other|Audio file "Ba-ел.ogg" not found}}Template:Category handlerTemplate:Category handler	'wind'	Apical retroflex lateral; occurs in front vowel contexts.
Dhivehi		ފަޅޯ / falhoa	[]	'papaya'	Represented by the Thaana letter ޅ (lhaviyani).
Enindhilyagwa				'emu'
Faroese				'early'	Allophone of after . See Faroese phonology
French	StandardTemplate:Sfnp			'beautiful leg'	Allophone of before and for some speakers.Template:Sfnp See French phonology
Gujarati				'tap'	Represented by a Template:Angbr. Pronounced as .Template:Sfnp
Kannada				'sesame'	Represented by a Template:Angbr
Katukina-KanamariTemplate:Sfnp				'to go'
Khanty	Eastern dialects			'bit'
	Some northern dialects
Korean		/		'pine'	Represented by a Template:Angbr. May also be pronounced as .
Malayalam	Malayalam script		{{errorTemplate:Main other|Audio file "Malayalam.ogg" not found}}Template:Category handlerTemplate:Category handler	'Malayalam'	Represented by the letter Template:Angbr. Sub apical retroflex. Long and short forms are contrastive word-mediallyTemplate:Sfnp
	Arabi Malayalam (Mapilla)
MapudungunTemplate:Sfnp				'hare'	Possible realization of ; may be Template:IPAblink or Template:IPAblink instead.Template:Sfnp
Marathi			Template:Ipa	'baby/child'	Represented by a Template:Angbr. Pronounced as . See Marathi phonology.
Miyako	Irabu dialect		Template:Ipa	'daytime'	Allophone of used everywhere except syllable-initially.
Norwegian	Eastern and central dialects			'dangerous'	See Norwegian phonology
Odia				'fruit'	Represented by a Template:Angbr. Pronounced as .Template:Sfnp
Parkari Koli				' clouds
Rajasthani				'fruit'	Represented by a ⟨ळ⟩.
Paiwan				'lightning' or 'flash'	See Paiwan phonology
Punjabi	Gurmukhi			'dew'	Represented by a Template:Angbr and Template:Angbr. Font support may be required to see the letter in Shahmukhi.
	Shahmukhi
Sanskrit	Vedic			'the mythological bird who Is the vahana of Lord Vishnu'	Represented by a Template:Angbr. Pronounced as .This consonant was present in Vedic Sanskrit but had become /ɖ/ ⟨ड⟩ in classical Sanskrit. See Vedic Sanskrit and Sanskrit phonology.
Swedish			{{errorTemplate:Main other|Audio file "sv-sorl.ogg" not found}}Template:Category handlerTemplate:Category handler	'murmur' (noun)	See Swedish phonology
TamilTemplate:Sfnp		/		'person'	Represented by a Template:Angbr. See Tamil phonology
Telugu			{{errorTemplate:Main other|Audio file "Niillu Water Telugu.ogg" not found}}Template:Category handlerTemplate:Category handler	'water'	Represented by a Template:Angbr
Wu Chinese	Northern Wu (Linping variety)	/er2		'conjunction (literary)'	A rhotic consonant (cf. Changzhounese )

See also

• Index of phonetics articles

References

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External links

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