Voiceless velar lateral fricative

The Archi language of the Dagestani family has a voiceless velar lateral fricative that is clearly a fricated, although further forward than velars in many languages, and might better be called pre-velar. Archi also has an affricate and ejective affricate at this place of articulation. The Nguni languages, such as Zulu Zulu language

Zulu , is a language [i] of the Zulu [i] people with about 10 million speakers, the vast majority of wh ...

, has a truly velar ejective lateral affricate, . The IPA has no separate symbol for these sounds. However, the "belt" on the existing symbol for a voiceless lateral fricative forms the basis for occasional ad hoc symbols for others:

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The Archi language of the Dagestani family has a voiceless velar lateral fricative that is clearly a fricated, although further forward than velars in many languages, and might better be called pre-velar. Archi also has an affricate and ejective affricate at this place of articulation.

The Nguni languages, such as Zulu Zulu language

Zulu , is a language [i] of the Zulu [i] people with about 10 million speakers, the vast majority of wh ...

, has a truly velar ejective lateral affricate, .

The IPA has no separate symbol for these sounds. However, the "belt" on the existing symbol for a voiceless lateral fricative forms the basis for occasional ad hoc symbols for others:

Such symbols are rare, but are becoming more common now that font-editing software has become accessible. Note however that since they are not sanctioned by the IPA, there are no Unicode Unicode

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values for them.