Voiced velar lateral approximant

The voiced velar lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound, used as a distinct consonant in a very small number of spoken languages in the world. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ʟ a small capital version of the Latin letter l (since 1989), and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is L\.

Voiced velar lateral approximant
ʟ
IPA Number158
Audio sample
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Encoding
Entity (decimal)ʟ
Unicode (hex)U+029F
X-SAMPAL\
Braille

The velar laterals of the world often involve a prestopped realization [ɡ͡ʟ].

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