Fricative Consonant - Lateral Fricatives

Lateral Fricatives

  • voiceless alveolar lateral fricative
  • voiced alveolar lateral fricative
  • or voiceless retroflex lateral fricative (also written )
  • or voiceless palatal lateral fricative (also )
  • voiceless velar lateral fricative (also )
  • voiced velar lateral fricative

The lateral fricative occurs as the ll of Welsh, as in Lloyd, Llewelyn, and the town of Machynlleth, as the unvoiced 'hl' and voiced 'dl' or 'dhl' in the several languages of Southern Africa (such as Xhosa and Zulu), and in Mongolian.

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