The voiceless alveolar lateral flap is a type of
consonantal sound, used in some
spokenlanguages. The symbol in the
International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ɺ̥⟩, a fusion of a rotated lowercase letter ⟨r⟩ with a letter ⟨l⟩ and a voiceless diacritic.
Features
Features of the voiceless alveolar lateral flap:
Its
manner of articulation is
tap or flap, which means it is produced with a single contraction of the muscles so that one articulator (usually the tongue) is thrown against another.
Its
phonation is voiceless, which means it is produced without vibrations of the vocal cords. In some languages the vocal cords are actively separated, so it is always voiceless; in others the cords are lax, so that it may take on the voicing of adjacent sounds.
It is an
oral consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth only.
It is a
lateral consonant, which means it is produced by directing the airstream over the sides of the tongue, rather than down the middle.
^Mosonyi, Emilio Esteban; Mosonyi, Jorge C.; Largo, Águeda (2000). Yavitero. In Mosonyi, Esteban Emilio and Jorge Carlos Mosonyi (eds.), Manual de Lenguas Indígenas de Venezuela: Caracas: Fundación Bigott. pp. 594–651.