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Encyclopedia > Voiceless palatal lateral fricative

The Bura language of the Chadic family has a voiceless palatal lateral fricative that contrasts with both a voiceless alveolar lateral fricative and a palatal lateral approximant. In addition, Hadza has both a voiceless and an ejective palatal lateral affricate, and Iraqw may be similar. The Chadic languages are a language family spoken across Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon, belonging to the Afro-Asiatic languages phylum; their best-known member is Hausa, the lingua franca of much of West Africa. ... The voiceless alveolar lateral fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... The palatal lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. ... Hadza is a language of Tanzania. ...


The IPA has no symbol for this sound. However, the "belt" on the existing symbol for a voiceless lateral fricative forms the basis for occasional ad hoc symbols for others:


Image:Lateral fricatives.png


Such symbols are rare, but are becoming more common now that font-editing software has become accessible. Note however that since they are not sanctioned by the IPA, there are no Unicode values for them. In computing, Unicode is the international standard whose goal is to provide the means to encode the text of every document people want to store in computers. ...


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Fricative consonant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (476 words)
Fricatives (or spirants) are consonants produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together.
A particular subset of fricatives are the sibilants (sometimes referred to as stridents).
All sibilants are coronal, but may be dental, alveolar, postalveolar, or palatal (retroflex) within that range.
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