Avoiced retroflex lateral affricate is a rareconsonantal sound, used in somespokenlanguages. The symbol in theInternational Phonetic Alphabet is ⟨ɖ͡ɭ˔⟩ or (implicit) ⟨ɖ͡𝼅⟩; the latter is alsoextIPA.

Features of a voiceless retroflex lateral affricate:

• Itsmanner of articulation isaffricate, which means it is produced by first stopping the airflow entirely, then allowing air flow through a constricted channel at the place of articulation, causing turbulence.
• Itsplace of articulation isretroflex, which prototypically means it is articulatedsubapical (with the tip of the tongue curled up), but more generally, it means that it ispostalveolar without beingpalatalized. That is, besides the prototypical subapical articulation, the tongue can beapical (pointed) or, in some fricatives,laminal (flat).
• Itsphonation is voiced, which means the vocal cords vibrate during the articulation.
• It is anoral consonant, which means that air is not allowed to escape through the nose.
• It is alateral consonant, which means it is produced by directing the airstream over the sides of the tongue, rather than down the middle.
• Itsairstream mechanism ispulmonic, which means it is articulated by pushing air only with theintercostal muscles andabdominal muscles, as in most sounds.

• Affricates
• Retroflex consonants
• Lateral consonants
• Pulmonic consonants
• Voiceless oral consonants

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