Voiceless alveolar lateral fricative
| Voiceless alveolar lateral fricative | |||
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| ɬ | |||
| IPA Number | 148 | ||
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| Encoding | |||
| Entity (decimal) | ɬ | ||
| Unicode (hex) | U+026C | ||
| X-SAMPA | K | ||
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The voiceless alveolar lateral fricative is a type of consonant. Some spoken languages use it. The letter for this sound in the International Phonetic Alphabet is ⟨ɬ⟩ (sometimes called lesh). The X-SAMPA symbol for this sound is K. The voiceless alveolar lateral fricative is not used in English but is used in Welsh and represented by "ll".