IPA number 181 Unicode (hex) U+027A Kirshenbaum * | Entity (decimal) ɺ X-SAMPA l\ | |
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The alveolar lateral flap is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ɺ⟩, a fusion of a rotated lowercase letter ⟨r⟩ with a letter ⟨l⟩.
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Some languages that are described as having a lateral flap, such as Japanese, actually have a flap that is indeterminate with respect to centrality, and may surface as either central or lateral, either in free variation or allophonically depending on surrounding vowels and consonants.
Features
Features of the alveolar lateral flap:
Alveolar
The variable Japanese sound has been transcribed with an l–ɾ ligature, lɾ.
References
Dental, alveolar and postalveolar lateral flaps Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA