A voiced retroflex lateral flap is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The "implicit" symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet is <span title="U+1DF08"></span>. The sound may also be transcribed as a short , or with the retired IPA dot diacritic, .
Features
Features of a voiced retroflex lateral flap:
Occurrence
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!colspan=2| Language
! Word
! IPA
! Meaning
! Notes
|-
| colspan=2|Amis ||
| ||'fog'||Apical postalveolar with schwa release.
|-
|colspan=2| Ilgar
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| Contrasts and possibly , though the last are likely underlying sequences of .
|-
|colspan=2| Iwaidja
|colspan=2 style="text-align:center;" |
| 'my foot'
| Contrasts and possibly , though the last are likely underlying sequences of .
|-
|colspan=2| Kannada
| ಕೇಳಿ/Kēḷi
|
| 'to ask'
| Can be an approximant instead.
|-
|colspan=2| Kobon
| ƚawƚ
|
| 'to shoot'
| Subapical.
|-
|colspan=2| Konkani
| फळ/fāḷ
|
| 'fruit'
|
|-
|colspan=2| Kresh
|
| —
| —
|
|-
|colspan=2| Malayalam
| വേളി/vēḷi
|
| 'marriage'
| Can be an approximant instead.
|-
|colspan=2| Marathi
| केळी/Kēḷī
|
| 'bananas'
| See Marathi phonology
|-
| colspan=2|Tarama & Irabu
| —
|
| 'to pull'
|
|-
| Norwegian
| Trøndersk
|
|
| 'glass'
| Apical postalveolar; See Norwegian phonology
|-
|colspan=2|O'odham
|
| —
| —
| Apical postalveolar.
| Pashto alphabet|/llund
|
| 'blind'
| Contrasts plain and nasalized flaps.
|blad
|['b𝼈ɑː(d)]
| 'leaf'
| Allophone of and . More commonly transcribed as .
|-
|colspan=2| Tamil
|குளி/Kuḷi
|
| 'bathe'
| Allophone of . See Tamil phonology
|-
|-
|colspan=2| Telugu
|పెళ్ళి/Pelli
|
| 'Marriage'
| Allophone of . See Telugu phonology
|-
| Tarahumara
| Western Rarámuri
|
| —
| —
| Often transcribed .
|-
|colspan=2| Totoli
| —
|
| 'snake'
| Allophone of after back vowels.
|
| —
| —
| Possible allophone of after back vowels, as well as an allophone of . as well as Nambikwara in Brazil (plain and laryngealized), Gaagudju in Australia, Purépecha and Western Rarámuri in Mexico, Moro in Sudan, O'odham and Mohawk in the United States, Chaga in Tanzania, and Kanuri in Nigeria.
Various Dravidian and Indo-Aryan languages of Indian subcontinent are reported to have a retroflex lateral flap, either phonemically or phonetically, including Gujarati, Konkani, Marathi, Odia, and Rajasthani. Masica describes the sound as widespread in the Indic languages of India: