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Voiced velar lateral approximant

Voiced velar lateral approximant
ʟ
IPA number158
Audio sample
Encoding
Entity (decimal)ʟ
Unicode (hex)U+029F
X-SAMPAL\
Braille⠔ (braille pattern dots-35)⠇ (braille pattern dots-123)

The voiced velar lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound, used as a distinct consonant in a very small number[1] 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\.

The velar laterals of the world often involve a prestopped realization [ɡ͡ʟ].[2]

  1. ^ François (2010), pp. 422–426.
  2. ^ François (2010), p. 425.

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