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.

ʟ̠˔
ա
պ
IPA number	600
Encoding
Entity (decimal)	
Unicode (hex)	U+000C
X-SAMPA	Q\

Features

• The airstream mechanism is pulmonic. It means that we produce this sound by pushing air solely with the lungs and diaphragm, as in most sounds.
• Its phonation is voiced. It means that the vocal cords vibrate during the articulation.
• We produce it at uvular. It means that we produce this sound with the back of the tongue (the dorsum) at the uvula.
• It is a lateral consonant. It means that we produce this sound by directing the airstream over the sides of the tongue, but not down the middle.
• Its behavior is fricative. It means that we produce this sound by constricting air flow through a narrow channel at the place of articulation, to make turbulence.

Related pages

• Voiced uvular lateral approximant

List of consonants

IPA: Pulmonic consonants

Place →	Labial					Coronal										Dorsal					Laryngeal
Manner ↓	Bi­labial		Labio­dental		Linguo­labial		Dental		Alveolar		Post­alveolar		Retro­flex		Palatal		Velar		Uvular		Pharyn­geal/epi­glottal		Glottal
Nasal
Stop
Sibilant affricate
Non-sibilant affricate
Sibilant fricative
Non-sibilant fricative
Approximant
Tap/flap
Trill
Lateral affricate
Lateral fricative
Lateral approximant
Lateral tap/flap

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Symbols to the right in a cell are voiced, to the left are voiceless. Gray areas are sounds which are impossible.