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Voiced alveolar lateral fricative voiced
Number API	155
IPA symbol	l
Unicode	U +006 C
X-SAMPA	`l`
Kirshenbaum	`l`

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Alveolar lateral fricative consonant fricative consonant sound is prevalent in many languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet is Features

Features of the voiced alveolar lateral fricative consonant:

Its manner of articulation is spirant , which means it is produced by bringing a pivot point close to another, without creating turbulence in the airstream.
Its place of articulation is alveolar , which means it is articulated with either the tip (apical) or the blade (laminal) of the tongue against the alveolar ridge.
Its phonation type is voiced , which means the vocal cords vibrate during the articulation.
It is an oral consonant , which means that no air escapes through the mouth.
It is a lateral consonant , which means it is produced by allowing air to pass on both sides of the tongue, rather than in the middle.
Its mechanism of air flow is egressive lung , which means it is articulated by pushing air through the lungs and through the channel vocal tract, rather than from the glottis or the mouth.

In French

The French have In other languages

The English used two types of lateral, which are allophones : next to the in other positions (including that of syllabic ).

The Italian has the See also

Consonants ( )

See also: IPA , Vowels

Methods
Articulation

Points of articulation

Labial

Labial-vel.

Coronal

Dorsal

Laryngeal

(None)

Pulmonic

Bilabial

Lab-tooth.

Dental

Alveolus.

Post-alv.

Retro.

Alv.-pal.

Palatal

Velar

Labio-vel.

Uvular

Pharyn.

Epiglottis.

Glottal

Nasal

OCCL. prnasalises

Occlusive

Affricates

Fric. prnasalises

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Fricatives

Spirants

Rolled

Battered

Affricates Fric.

Fricatives Fric.

Spirants Fric.

Battered Fric.

Non-consumptive

OCCL. injective

OCCL. ejective

Fric. ejective

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Various Pulmonic consonants that are not part of another point of articulation:

Description	Symbol
Co-palatal approximant
Post-alveolar fricative consonant-velar fricative
Voiced alveolar lateral fricative voiced velarized

Where symbols appear in a box, the left represents a voiceless consonant , the right one voiced consonant (not applicable to clicks).
Boxes separated by dotted lines normally use the same symbols API base and differ only by diacritical possibly applied to move their joints.
Fields marked with an asterisk (*) indicate sounds not yet represented formally documented in the API.
Shaded areas indicate a link that seemed impossible. The empty white boxes indicate theoretical articulations possible but not yet certified.
The affricates ts, dz, t, d, t, d are rated using ligatures , , , , , common use, no longer part of the API (it is recommended replace them with two joints, associated with a ligature pull -subscribed-or superscript or with the fricative superscript).
The occlusive injective deaf in italics, sometimes used, are no longer part of the API (it is recommended to replace the symbol of the voiced consonant devoicing of the diacritic).