Voiceless palatal lateral fricative


A voiceless palatal lateral fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in a few spoken languages. This sound is somewhat rare; Dahalo has both a palatal lateral fricative and an affricate; Hadza has a series of palatal lateral affricates. In Bura, it is the realization of palatalized and contrasts with.
The extensions to the IPA transcribes this sound with the letter, which was added to Unicode in 2021. Some scholars also posit a voiceless palatal lateral approximant distinct from the fricative. The approximant may be represented in the IPA as.
If distinction is necessary, a voiceless alveolo-palatal lateral fricative may be transcribed as or as advanced ; these are essentially equivalent. The approximant also occurs and can be represented as or.

Features

Features of the voiceless palatal lateral fricative:

Voiceless post-palatal lateral fricative

Archi, a Northeast Caucasian language of Dagestan, has four voiceless palatal lateral fricatives: plain, labialized, fortis, and labialized fortis. Although clearly fricatives, these are further back than palatals in most languages, but further forward than velars in most languages, and might better be called post-palatal or pre-velar. Archi also has a voiced fricative, as well as a [voiceless velar consonant|velar lateral affricate|voiceless] and several ejective lateral velar affricates, but no alveolar lateral fricatives or affricates.