Voiceless velar lateral affricate
The voiceless velar lateral affricate is an uncommon speech sound found as a phoneme in the Caucasus and as an allophone in several languages of eastern and southern Africa.
Archi, a Northeast Caucasian language of Dagestan, has two such affricates, plain and labialized, though they are further forward than velars in most languages, and might better be called prevelar. Archi also has ejective variants of its lateral affricates, several voiceless lateral fricatives, and a voiced lateral fricative at the same place of articulation, but no alveolar lateral fricatives or affricates.
Zulu and Xhosa have a voiceless lateral affricate as an allophone of their voiceless velar affricate. Hadza has an ejective velar lateral affricate as an allophone of its velar ejective affricate. Indeed, in Hadza this contrasts with a palatal lateral ejective affricate,. ǁXegwi is reported to have contrasted velar from alveolar.
Laghuu, a Loloish language of Vietnam, contrasts four velar lateral affricates,.
The IPA has no separate symbol for the fricative element of these sounds, but SIL International has added a symbol, Charis SIL, Doulos SIL, serif">, to the Private Use Areas of their Gentium, Charis and Doulos fonts, at U+F268. Thus the fricatives can be written .Features
Features of the voiceless velar lateral affricate:Occurrence
