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 .
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!colspan=2| Language
! Word
! IPA
! Meaning
! Notes
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|colspan=2| Bashkir
|
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| 'wind'
| Apical retroflex lateral; occurs in front vowel contexts.
|-
| colspan="2" |Dhivehi
|ފަޅޯ / falhoa
|align=center| []
|'papaya'
||Represented by the Thaana letter ޅ (lhaviyani).
|-
|colspan=2| Enindhilyagwa
|
|align=center|
| 'emu'
|
|-
|colspan=2| Faroese
|
|align=center|
| 'early'
| Allophone of after . See Faroese phonology
|-
|French
|Standard
|
|align=center|
| 'beautiful leg'
| Allophone of before and for some speakers. See French phonology
|-
| colspan="2" | Gujarati
|
|align=center|
| 'tap'
| Represented by a . Pronounced as .
|-
|colspan=2| Kannada
|
|align=center|
| 'sesame'
| Represented by a
|-
| colspan="2" |Katukina-Kanamari
|
|align=center|
| 'to go'
|
|-
| rowspan=2 | Khanty
| Eastern dialects
| rowspan=2 |
| rowspan=2 align=center|
| rowspan=2 | 'bit'
| rowspan=2 |
|-
| Some northern dialects
|-
| colspan="2" |Korean
| /
|align=center|
|'pine'
|Represented by a . May also be pronounced as .
|-
|rowspan=2| Malayalam
| Malayalam script
|
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|rowspan=2| 'Malayalam'
| Represented by the letter . Sub apical retroflex. Long and short forms are contrastive word-medially
|-
| Arabi Malayalam (Mapilla)
| ||
|-
|colspan=2| Mapudungun
|
|align=center|
| 'hare'
| Possible realization of ; may be or instead.
|-
| colspan="2" |Marathi
|
|align=center|
|'baby/child'
|Represented by a . Pronounced as . See Marathi phonology.
|-
|Miyako
|Irabu dialect
|
|align=center|
|'daytime'
|Allophone of used everywhere except syllable-initially.
|-
| Norwegian
|Eastern and central dialects
|
|align=center|
| 'dangerous'
| See Norwegian phonology
|-
| colspan="2" | Odia
|
|align=center|
| 'fruit'
| Represented by a . Pronounced as .
|-
| colspan="2" | Parkari Koli || || align=center| || 'clouds' ||
|-
|colspan=2| Rajasthani
|
|align=center|
| 'fruit'
| Represented by a ⟨ळ⟩.
|-
|colspan=2| Paiwan
|
|align=center|
| 'lightning' or 'flash'
| See Paiwan phonology
|-
| rowspan="2" | Punjabi
| Gurmukhi
|
| align=center rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" | 'dew'
| rowspan="2" | Represented by a and . Font support may be required to see the letter in Shahmukhi.
|-
| Shahmukhi
|
|-
|colspan=2| Swedish
|
|align=center|
| 'murmur' (noun)
| See Swedish phonology
|-
|colspan=2| Tamil
| /
|align=center|
| 'person'
| Represented by a . See Tamil phonology
|-
|colspan=2| Telugu
|
|align=center|
| 'water'
| Represented by a
|-
| Wu Chinese || Northern Wu (Linping variety) || /er<sup>2</sup> || align=center| || conjunction (literary)' || A rhotic consonant (cf. Changzhounese )
|}
See also
- Index of phonetics articles