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In the Tamil Language the Retroflex Lateral Approximant is often realized as a flap, but this is not contrastive.

The symbol for the alveolar lateral flap is combined with the tail of the retroflex consonants to create the ''ad hoc'' symbol for the Retroflex Lateral Flap , (here created as a digraph, with a diacritic for the tail, since there is no Unicode value for this symbol). While this is the expected symbol, it is not officially recognized by the IPA. In addition, now that font-editing software has become accessible, dedicated glyphs are sometimes created for such sounds, such as: