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voiceless lateral fricative
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Voiceless dental and alveolar lateral fricatives
The
voiceless
alveolar
lateral
fricative
is a type of
consonantal
sound, used in some
spoken
languages
. The symbol in the
International Phonetic Alphabet
that represents voiceless
dental
,
alveolar
, and
postalveolar
lateral
fricatives
is , and the equivalent
X-SAMPA
symbol is . The letter is called "belted l" and should not be confused with "l with tilde", , which transcribes a different sound, the velarized alveolar lateral approximant. It should also be distinguished from a
voiceless alveolar lateral approximant
, although the fricative is sometimes incorrectly described as a "voiceless l", a description fitting only of the approximant.
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