Voiceless palatal lateral fricative
The voiceless palatal lateral fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in a few spoken languages.
This sound is somewhat rare; Dahalo has both a palatal lateral fricative and an affricate; Hadza has a series of affricates. In Bura, it is the realization of palatalized and contrasts with.
The IPA has no dedicated symbol for this sound. The devoicing and raising diacritics may be used to transcribe it:. However, the "belt" on the existing symbol for a voiceless lateral fricative,, forms the basis for other lateral fricatives used in the extIPA, including the palatal, :
SIL International has added this symbol to the Private Use Areas of their Gentium, Charis, and Doulos fonts, as U+F267.
If distinction is necessary, the voiceless alveolo-palatal lateral fricative may be transcribed as or ; these are essentially equivalent, since the contact includes both the blade and body of the tongue. The equivalent X-SAMPA symbols are K_-_j or K_-' and L_0_+_r, respectively. A non-IPA letter ⟨Gentium Plus, Charis SIL, Doulos SIL, serif"> ⟩ can also be used, and so can the non-IPA .Features
Features of the voiceless palatal lateral fricative:Occurrence
