Avoiced palatal lateral flap is a rare type ofconsonantal sound, used in some spokenlanguages. There is no dedicated symbol in theInternational Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound. However, the symbol for apalatal lateral approximant with abreve denotingextra-short ⟨ʎ̆⟩, or equivalently ⟨ʎ̮⟩ to avoid a clash with the ascender.^[1]

Features of a voiced palatal 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 ispalatal, which means it is articulated with the middle or back part of thetongue raised to thehard palate.
• 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.

TheIlgar language of Australia has a palatal lateral flap as well asalveolar andretroflex lateral flaps. However, a phonetic palatal flap has not been shown to bephonemic.^[2]

• Lateral consonants
• Palatal consonants
• Tap and flap consonants
• Pulmonic consonants
• Voiced oral consonants

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