A voiced palatal lateral fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , though in extIPA is preferred.
This sound is not known to occur as a phoneme in any language, but it does occur as an allophone of in Italian, Spanish and Jebero.: "(...) in a large number of Italian accents, there is considerable friction involved in the pronunciation of , creating a voiced palatal lateral fricative (for which there is no established IPA symbol)."
Features Features of a voiced palatal lateral fricative:
Occurrence Palatal Language Word IPA Meaning NotesItalianMany accents 'son' Approximant in other accents. See Italian phonologyJebero 'shotgun' Occasional allophone of ; only lightly fricated.
Post-palatal
A voiced post-palatal or pre-velar lateral fricative can be found in Archi, a Northeast Caucasian language of Dagestan, in which it is clearly a fricative and articulated further back than typical palatals, but further forward than typical velars in most languages. (The source uses the symbol for the voiced alveolar lateral fricative , but specifically notes the sound to be 'palato-velar'.)
Language Word IPA Meaning Notes Archi 'blue' Pre-velar or 'palato-velar'. Has been transcribed as plain velar or simply alveolar , but still described as pre-velar.
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