Voiceless dental, alveolar and postalveolar lateral approximants


The voiceless alveolar lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages. The symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represent the dental, alveolar, and postalveolar lateral approximants are and, combinations of the letter for the voiced alveolar lateral approximant and a diacritic indicating voicelessness above or below the letter. The equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is.
Voiceless lateral approximants are common in Sino-Tibetan languages, but uncommon elsewhere.

Features

Features of the voiceless alveolar lateral approximant:

Dental or denti-alveolar

Alveolar

Postalveolar