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Voiceless Alveolar Lateral Fricative IPA - Unicode> | align="center" style="font-size: 24px"| | | IPA - image | align="center"| | | X-SAMPA | align="center"|K | | Kirshenbaum | align="center"|s<lat> | | colspan="2"|Sound sample | The voiceless alveolar lateral fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is K. The symbol is called "belted l" and should not be confused with "l with tilde", , which corresponds to a different sound, the velarized alveolar lateral approximant. Features of this consonant: The lateral voiceless alveolar fricative occurs in Welsh; the letters 'll' correspond to this sound in Welsh spelling. English speakers can approximate this sound by pronouncing the sounds h and l simultaneously.
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