Voiceless alveolar lateral fricative
| Voiceless alveolar lateral fricative | |
|---|---|
| ɬ | |
| IPA Number | 148 |
| Encoding | |
| Entity (decimal) | ɬ |
| Unicode (hex) | U+026C |
| X-SAMPA | K |
| Braille | ⠇ (braille pattern dots-123)⠮ (braille pattern dots-2346)⠐ (braille pattern dots-5) |
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".
