Voiced palatal lateral fricative

The voiced palatal lateral fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ʎ̝⟩, though in extIPA ⟨𝼆̬⟩ is preferred. The equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is.

This sound is not known to occur as a phoneme in any language, but it does occur as an allophone of in Italian and Jebero.

Features
Features of the voiced palatal lateral fricative: