Voiced retroflex lateral approximant

A 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.

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

Features

Features of a voiced retroflex lateral approximant:

Occurrence

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

Language		Word	IPA	Meaning	Notes
Bashkir		Template:Lang	Template:Audio-IPA	'wind'	Apical retroflex lateral; occurs in front vowel contexts.
Dhivehi		ފަޅޯ / falhoa	[[[:Template:IPA]]]	'papaya'	Represented by the Thaana letter ޅ (lhaviyani).
Enindhilyagwa		Template:Lang	Template:IPA	'emu'
Faroese		Template:Lang	Template:IPA	'early'	Allophone of Template:IPA after Template:IPA. See Faroese phonology
French	StandardTemplate:Sfnp	Template:Lang	Template:IPA	'beautiful leg'	Allophone of Template:IPA before Template:IPA and Template:IPA for some speakers.Template:Sfnp See French phonology
Gujarati		Template:Lang	Template:IPA	'tap'	Represented by a Template:Angbr. Pronounced as Template:IPA.Template:Sfnp
Kannada		Template:Lang	Template:IPA	'sesame'	Represented by a Template:Angbr
Katukina-KanamariTemplate:Sfnp			Template:IPA	'to go'
Khanty	Eastern dialects	Template:Lang	Template:IPA	'bit'
	Some northern dialects
Korean		Template:Lang / Template:Lang	Template:IPA	'pine'	Represented by a Template:Angbr. May also be pronounced as Template:IPA.
Malayalam	Malayalam script	Template:Lang	Template:Audio-IPA	'Malayalam'	Represented by the letter Template:Angbr. Sub apical retroflex. Long and short forms are contrastive word-mediallyTemplate:Sfnp<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
	Arabi Malayalam (Mapilla)	Template:Lang
MapudungunTemplate:Sfnp		Template:Lang	Template:IPA	'hare'	Possible realization of Template:IPA; may be Template:IPAblink or Template:IPAblink instead.Template:Sfnp
Marathi		Template:Lang	Template:Ipa	'baby/child'	Represented by a Template:Angbr. Pronounced as Template:IPA. See Marathi phonology.
Miyako	Irabu dialect	Template:Lang	Template:Ipa	'daytime'	Allophone of Template:IPA used everywhere except syllable-initially.
Norwegian	Eastern and central dialects	Template:Lang	Template:IPA	'dangerous'	See Norwegian phonology
Odia		Template:Lang	Template:IPA	'fruit'	Represented by a Template:Angbr. Pronounced as Template:IPA.Template:Sfnp
Parkari Koli		Template:Lang	Template:IPA	' clouds
Rajasthani		Template:Lang	Template:IPA	'fruit'	Represented by a ⟨ळ⟩.
Paiwan<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>		Template:Lang	Template:IPA	'lightning' or 'flash'	See Paiwan phonology
Punjabi	Gurmukhi	Template:Lang	Template:IPA	'dew'	Represented by a Template:Angbr and Template:Angbr. Font support may be required to see the letter in Shahmukhi.
	Shahmukhi	Template:Lang
Sanskrit	Vedic	Template:Lang	Template:IPA	'the mythological bird who Is the vahana of Lord Vishnu'	Represented by a Template:Angbr. Pronounced as Template:IPA.This consonant was present in Vedic Sanskrit but had become /ɖ/ ⟨ड⟩ in classical Sanskrit. See Vedic Sanskrit and Sanskrit phonology.
Swedish		Template:Lang	Template:Audio-IPA	'murmur' (noun)	See Swedish phonology
TamilTemplate:Sfnp		Template:Lang / Template:Lang	Template:IPA	'person'	Represented by a Template:Angbr. See Tamil phonology
Telugu		Template:Lang	Template:Audio-IPA	'water'	Represented by a Template:Angbr
Wu Chinese	Northern Wu (Linping variety)	Template:Lang/er2	Template:IPA	'conjunction (literary)'	A rhotic consonant (cf. Changzhounese Template:IPA)

See also

• Index of phonetics articles

References

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External links

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