Voiceless retroflex lateral fricative

The voiceless retroflex lateral fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The 'implicit' IPA letter for this sound, , is overtly supported by the extIPA.

Voiceless retroflex lateral fricative
Audio sample
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Encoding
Entity (decimal)ꞎ
Unicode (hex)U+A78E
Voiceless retroflex lateral approximant
ɭ̊
IPA Number156 402A
Encoding
X-SAMPAl`_0

Some scholars posit a voiceless retroflex lateral approximant distinct from the fricative. The approximant may be represented in the IPA as ɭ̊.

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