The voiceless 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 ⟨ɺ̥⟩, a fusion of a rotated lowercase letter ⟨r⟩ with a letter ⟨l⟩ and a voiceless diacritic.
| Voiceless alveolar lateral flap | |
|---|---|
| ɺ̥ | |
| IPA Number | 181 |
| Audio sample | |
| Encoding | |
| Entity (decimal) | ɺ |
| Unicode (hex) | U+027A |
| X-SAMPA | l\ |
| Braille |   |
Features
editFeatures of the voiceless alveolar lateral flap:
- Its manner of articulation is tap or flap, which means it is produced with a single contraction of the muscles so that one articulator (usually the tongue) is thrown against another.
- Its place of articulation is alveolar, which means it is articulated with either the tip or the blade of the tongue at the alveolar ridge, termed respectively apical and laminal.
- Its phonation is voiceless, which means it is produced without vibrations of the vocal cords. In some languages the vocal cords are actively separated, so it is always voiceless; in others the cords are lax, so that it may take on the voicing of adjacent sounds.
- It is an oral consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth only.
- It is a lateral consonant, which means it is produced by directing the airstream over the sides of the tongue, rather than down the middle.
- Its airstream mechanism is pulmonic, which means it is articulated by pushing air solely with the intercostal muscles and abdominal muscles, as in most sounds.
Occurrence
edit| Family | Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arawakan | Karu[1] | Hohodene | [ɺ̥je.ˈtɐ̃.hə͂] | 'that' | In alternation with an alveolar tap.[1] Contrasts /ɺ̥, ɺ/. | |
| Arawakan | Yavitero[2] | [example needed] | Contrasts /ɾ, r, ɺ̥, ɺ/. | |||
Notes
edit- ^ a b Souza (2012), p. 78.
- ^ Mosonyi, Emilio Esteban; Mosonyi, Jorge C.; Largo, Águeda (2000). Yavitero. In Mosonyi, Esteban Emilio and Jorge Carlos Mosonyi (eds.), Manual de Lenguas Indígenas de Venezuela: Caracas: Fundación Bigott. pp. 594–651.
References
edit- Souza, Erick Marcelo Lima de (2012). Estudo fonológico da Língua Baniwa-Kuripako (Master's dissertation) (in Brazilian Portuguese). University of Campinas. doi:10.47749/T/UNICAMP.2012.898354. hdl:20.500.12733/1619268.