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 .

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

Features Features of a voiced retroflex lateral approximant:

Occurrence In the following transcriptions, diacritics may be used to distinguish between apical and laminal . Language Word IPA Meaning Notes Bashkir 'wind' Apical retroflex lateral; occurs in front vowel contexts.Dhivehiފަޅޯ / falhoa []'papaya'Represented by the Thaana letter ޅ (lhaviyani). Enindhilyagwa 'emu' Faroese 'early' Allophone of after . See Faroese phonologyFrenchStandard 'beautiful leg' Allophone of before and for some speakers. See French phonology Gujarati 'tap' Represented by a . Pronounced as . Kannada 'sesame' Represented by a Katukina-Kanamari 'to go' Khanty Eastern dialects 'bit' Some northern dialectsKorean / 'pine'Represented by a . May also be pronounced as . Malayalam Malayalam script 'Malayalam' Represented by the letter . Sub apical retroflex. Long and short forms are contrastive word-medially Arabi Malayalam (Mapilla) Mapudungun 'hare' Possible realization of ; may be or instead.Marathi 'baby/child'Represented by a . Pronounced as . See Marathi phonology.MiyakoIrabu dialect 'daytime'Allophone of used everywhere except syllable-initially. NorwegianEastern and central dialects 'dangerous' See Norwegian phonology Odia 'fruit' Represented by a . Pronounced as . Parkari Koli 'clouds' Rajasthani 'fruit' Represented by a ⟨ळ⟩. Paiwan 'lightning' or 'flash' See Paiwan phonology Punjabi Gurmukhi 'dew' Represented by a and . Font support may be required to see the letter in Shahmukhi. Shahmukhi Swedish 'murmur' (noun) See Swedish phonology Tamil / 'person' Represented by a . See Tamil phonology Telugu 'water' Represented by a Wu Chinese Northern Wu (Linping variety) /er2 'conjunction (literary)' A rhotic consonant (cf. Changzhounese )

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