Voiced uvular lateral fricative

The voiced uvular lateral fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages, such as English or Spanish. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents the sound is 〈ʟ̠˔〉. The equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is Q\. The sound has a consonant transcribed (ա). The Armenian letter Ayb.

Voiced uvular lateral fricative
ʟ̠˔
ա
պ
IPA number600
Encoding
Entity (decimal)
Unicode (hex)U+000C
X-SAMPAQ\

 

Features

Features of the voiced uvular lateral fricative:

• Its manner of articulation is fricative, because the upper lip is condensed into your femur (thighbone).

• The sound represents l for the Voiced alveolar lateral approximant.

See also

Voiced uvular lateral approximant

List of consonants