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The voiceless alveolar lateral fricative is a type of Consonant al sound, used in some Spoken Language s. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents voiceless Dental , Alveolar , and Postalveolar Fricatives is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is K. The symbol is called "belted l" and should not be confused with "l with tilde", , which corresponds to a different sound, the Velarized Alveolar Lateral Approximant . It should also be distinguished from a voiceless Alveolar Lateral Approximant , although either are often described as a "voiceless l". FEATURES Features of the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative:
IN ENGLISH English does not possess this sound, but English speakers can approximate it by pronouncing the sounds and [l simultaneously. A phonetically similar sound, the voiceless lateral approximant, occurs in English after /p/ and /k/ in words like 'plead' and 'clean'. The voiceless approximant (but not the fricative) was also found in Old English in words like ''hlūd'' "loud". IN OTHER LANGUAGES Welsh In Welsh spelling, the Digraph ''ll'' represents the voiceless lateral fricative. It is common in place names, many of which begin with ''Llan,'' the enclosure connected with a church or parish. The personal name Floyd , an anglicised spelling of ''llwyd'' ("grey"), was written with an ''fl'' in an attempt to capture both the lateral and fricative aspects of this sound. The more Welsh version of the name, Lloyd , is usually pronounced with an English {Link without Title} sound. Xhosa and Zulu In Xhosa and Zulu spelling, the letters ''hl'' correspond to this sound. Tera Written as ''tl'' -- see {Link without Title} Totonac In the languages of the Totonac family, the voiceless lateral fricative is represented by the digraph "lh." Damin Damin has an '' Ingressive '' voiceless lateral fricative . That is, the sound is made by ''inhaling'' air over the sides of the tongue. This is the only confirmed example in the world of a phoneme regularly produced by inhaling. Proto-Semitic See Also: Śat The sound is assumed as a phoneme for Proto-Semitic , usually transcribed as , since it evolved into Arabic , Hebrew , : Amongst Semitic Languages , the sound still exists in contemporary Soqotri . Toisanese In the Taishan Dialect of Cantonese , the sound occurs in many places where an "s" sound would occur in Cantonese. Icelandic In Icelandic, the digraph ''ll'' represents the sound , and ''rl'' represents . THE VOICELESS LATERAL APPROXIMANT In Icelandic spelling, the initial letters ''hl'', as well as the ''l'' in ''lp, lt, lk'' are voiceless lateral approximants. Tibetan also has this, for example in the city name Lhasa . However, these sounds lack the striking fricative quality of the Welsh and Zulu lateral fricative. SEE ALSO |
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