A lateral flap is a family of consonantal sounds, used in some spoken languages.
There are four attested or claimed lateral flaps in the world's languages:
The alveolar lateral flap [ɺ] is quite common.
A retroflex lateral flap [𝼈 ] ([ɭ̆ ]) is found throughout South Asia, from Pashtun to Oriya, in the Iwaidjan languages of Australia, and sporadically elsewhere.
A palatal lateral flap [ʎ̆] has been described from Iwaidja, but may be a palatalized alveolar flap.
A velar lateral flap [ʟ̆] occurs allophonically in Melpa and a few other languages of New Guinea.
A lateralflap is a family of consonantal sounds, used in some spoken languages. There are four attested or claimed lateralflaps in the world's languages:...
The voiced alveolar lateralflap is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that...
The voiced palatal lateralflap is a rare type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. There is no dedicated symbol in the International Phonetic...
distinguish [r] from l may have a lateralflap. However, it is also possible that many of these languages do not have a lateral–central contrast at all, so...
The voiced retroflex lateralflap is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The 'implicit' symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet...
Ilgar languages of Australia, have lateralflaps, and others, such as the Xhosa and Zulu languages of Africa, have lateral clicks. When pronouncing the labiodental...
The voiceless retroflex lateralflap is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages (as in Wahgi). The implicit symbol for this sound in...
The voiceless alveolar lateralflap is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that...
The voiced velar lateral tap is an allophone of the velar lateral approximant in some languages of New Guinea, such as Kanite and Melpa. The extremely...
The voiced alveolar tap or flap is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents...
retroflex lateral fricatives [ꞎ] and [𝼅], of the retroflex lateralflap [𝼈], and of the retroflex click release [𝼊]. (See Latin Extended-F.) The lateral fricatives...
In phonetics, the voiced labiodental flap is a speech sound found primarily in languages of Central Africa, such as Kera and Mangbetu. It has also been...
the pronunciation of the letter L in the English word "let"), lateralflaps, and lateral fricatives and affricates. Plosive, often called stop, is an oral...
vowels. Kobon distinguishes an alveolar lateral /l/, a palatal lateral /ʎ/, a subapical retroflex lateralflap /𝼈 / (ɭ̆ ), and a fricative trill /r̝/...
[t]. Colloquial Samoan, however, lacks both [t] and [n], but it has a lateral alveolar approximant /l/. (Samoan words written with t and n are pronounced...
an axial skin-flap. After the nasolabial flap has been emplaced, the flap donor-site wound is sutured closed. For a wound of the lateral nasal wall that...
as approximants [ɹ̥, ɹ, ɻ̊, ɻ], or taps [ɾ̥, ɾ, ɽ̊, ɽ]. A retroflex lateralflap [ɭ̆] can also be heard in syllable-final position. According to Anthony...
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from an alveolar trill. Wahgi has a similar trilled allophone of its lateralflap, [𝼈̥r̥]. Features of the voiceless retroflex trill: Its manner of articulation...
defined merely as "a sound between r and l", was redefined as an alveolar lateralflap, in keeping with the use for which it had been originally approved, "a...
retroflex rhotic or lateral, tends to be a lateralflap [𝼈] at the beginning of a syllable or other prosodic unit, and a regular flap [ɽ] or approximant...
Hindi. Additionally, there is ळ ḷa (IPA: [ɭ] or [ɭ̆]), the intervocalic lateralflap allophone of the voiced retroflex stop in Vedic Sanskrit, which is a...
one contact. While single-contact trills are similar to taps and flaps, a tap or flap differs from a trill in that it is made by a muscular contraction...
that a narrower flap be used with pronounced lateral pharyngeal wall movement, while a wider flap should be used with limited lateral pharyngeal wall...
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