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Voiceless alveolar lateral affricate
ƛ
IPA Number103 (148)
Audio sample
Encoding
Entity (decimal)t​͡​ɬ
Unicode (hex)U+0074 U+0361 U+026C

The voiceless alveolar lateral affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet is ⟨t͡ɬ⟩ (often simplified to ⟨⟩), and in Americanist phonetic notation it is ⟨ƛ⟩ (barred lambda).

Features

Features of the voiceless alveolar lateral affricate:

Occurrence

Language Word IPA Meaning Notes
Arabic Levantine ثلاثة/tlete [t͡ɬe̞ːte̞] 'three' Allophone of /tl/
Avar лӀугьине [t͡ɬ:uhine] 'to become'
Cherokee Otali tla [t͡ɬa] 'no'
Chukchi Ԓыгъоравэтԓьэн [ɬəɣˀorawetɬˀɛn] 'Chukchi'
Haida tla'únhl [t͡ɬʌʊ́nɬ] 'six'
Hebrew תלונה/tluna [ˈt͡ɬuna] 'complaint' Pronunciation of /tl/ sequence by some speakers.
Icelandic bolli [ˈpɔt͡ɬɪ] 'cup' See Icelandic phonology.
Ladin tlo [t͡ɬo] 'here' Gherdëina variant
Nahuatl Nahuatl [ˈnaːwat͡ɬ] 'Nahuatl language'
Pa Na [t͡ɬa˧˥] 'frost'
Sahaptin [t͡ɬupt] 'jumping'
Spanish Mexican[1] Xóchitl [ˈʃo̞t͡ʃit͡ɬ] 'Xóchitl' See Spanish phonology.
Tlingit[2] tleilóo [t͡ɬeɬúː] 'butterfly' Distinguishes aspirated and unaspirated
Tsez элIни/eƛni [ˈʔɛ̝t͡ɬni] 'winter'
Tswana tlala [t͡ɬala] 'hunger'

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