Dental, alveolar and postalveolar lateral flaps

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Dental, alveolar and postalveolar lateral flaps
ɺ
lɾ
IPA Number 181
Encoding
Entity (decimal) ɺ
Unicode (hex) U+027A
X-SAMPA l\
Braille ⠦ (braille pattern dots-236) ⠼ (braille pattern dots-3456)

The 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 ⟨ɺ⟩, a fusion of a rotated lowercase letter ⟨r⟩ with a letter ⟨l⟩.

Some languages that are described as having a lateral flap, such as Japanese, actually have a flap that is indeterminate with respect to centrality, and may surface as either central or lateral, either in free variation or allophonically depending on surrounding vowels and consonants.

Features

Features of the alveolar lateral flap:

Occurrence

Dental

Language Word IPA Meaning Notes
Chaga[1] [example needed] Laminal dental.[1]

Alveolar

Language Word IPA Meaning Notes
Japanese[2] /kokoro <phonos file="ja-kokoro.ogg">[kokoɺo]</phonos> 'heart' See Japanese phonology
Pirahã toogixi [tòːɺ͡ɺ̼ìʔì] 'hoe' Only used in some types of speech
Wayuu püülükü [pɯːɺɯkɯ] 'pig' Contrasts with /r/

The variable Japanese sound has been transcribed with an l–ɾ ligature, lɾ.[3]

Postalveolar

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Language Word IPA Meaning Notes
Norwegian Trøndersk[4] glas [ˈɡɺ̠ɑːs] 'glass' Realization of the tjukk l according to Grønnum (2005). See Norwegian phonology
O'odham[1] [example needed] Apical.[1]

See also

References

Bibliography

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