Voiceless alveolar lateral flap
ɺ̥
IPA number	181
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Entity(decimal)	ɺ
Unicode(hex)	U+027A
X-SAMPA	l\
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Avoiceless alveolar lateral flap is a type ofconsonantal sound, used in somespokenlanguages. The symbol in theInternational Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ɺ̥⟩, a fusion of a rotated lowercase letter⟨r⟩ with a letter⟨l⟩ and a voiceless diacritic.

Features of a voiceless alveolar lateral flap:

• Itsmanner of articulation istap or flap, which means it is produced with a single contraction of the muscles so that one articulator (usually the tongue) is thrown against another.
• Itsplace of articulation isalveolar, which means it is articulated with either the tip or the blade of the tongue at thealveolar ridge, termed respectivelyapical andlaminal.
• Itsphonation is voiceless, which means it is produced without vibrations of the vocal cords. In some languages the vocal cords are actively separated, so it is always voiceless; in others the cords are lax, so that it may take on the voicing of adjacent sounds.
• 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.

• List of languages with /ɺ̥/

• Alveolar consonants
• Lateral consonants
• Tap and flap consonants
• Pulmonic consonants
• Oral consonants

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