Voiceless alveolar lateral fricative

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".

Voiceless alveolar lateral fricative
ɬ
IPA Number	148
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Entity (decimal)	ɬ
Unicode (hex)	U+026C
X-SAMPA	K
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