Voiced palatal lateral flap

A voiced palatal lateral flap is a rare type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. There is no dedicated symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound. However, the symbol for a palatal [lateral approximant] with a breve denoting extra-short, or equivalently to avoid a clash with the ascender, can be used.

Features

Features of a voiced palatal lateral flap:

Occurrence

The Ilgar language of Australia has a palatal lateral flap as well as alveolar and retroflex lateral flaps. However, a phonetic palatal flap has not been shown to be phonemic.