The alveolar lateral ejective fricative is a type of consonantal sound, reported in the Northwest Caucasian languages and in Modern South Arabian languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ɬʼ⟩.
| Alveolar lateral ejective fricative | |
|---|---|
| ɬʼ | |
| Audio sample | |
| Encoding | |
| X-SAMPA | K_> |
Features
editFeatures of the alveolar lateral ejective fricative:
- Its manner of articulation is fricative, which means it is produced by constricting air flow through a narrow channel at the place of articulation, causing turbulence.
- Its place of articulation is alveolar, which means it is articulated with either the tip or the blade of the tongue at the alveolar ridge, termed respectively apical and laminal.
- Its phonation is voiceless, which means it is produced without vibrations of the vocal cords.
- 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.
- The airstream mechanism is ejective (glottalic egressive), which means the air is forced out by pumping the glottis upward.
Occurrence
edit[ɬʼ] occurs in the reconstructed Proto-Semitic language.[1]
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adyghe | лIэшIэгъу | [ɬʼaʃʼaʁʷə] | 'century' | ||
| Kabardian | плӀы | 'four' | |||
| Tlingit[2] | lʼook | ‘fish’ | |||
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Lyovin, Anatole (2017). An Introduction to the Languages of the World. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. p. 202. ISBN 9780195149883.
- ^ Ladefoged, Peter; Maddieson, Ian (1996). The Sounds of the World's Languages. Oxford: Blackwell. p. 213. ISBN 0-631-19815-6.