The palatal lateral flap is a rare type of consonant

Consonant

In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract. Examples are , pronounced with the lips; , pronounced with the front of the tongue; , pronounced with the back of the tongue; , pronounced in the throat; and ,...

al sound, used in some spoken language

Language

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s. There is no symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet

International Phonetic Alphabet

The International Phonetic Alphabet "The acronym 'IPA' strictly refers [...] to the 'International Phonetic Association'. But it is now such a common practice to use the acronym also to refer to the alphabet itself that resistance seems pedantic...

 that represents this sound. However, the symbol for a palatal lateral approximant

Palatal lateral approximant

The palatal lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , a rotated lowercase letter ⟨y⟩ , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is L.-Features:Features of the palatal lateral...

 may be used with a breve as an ad hoc symbol, placed under the letter to avoid the ascender, ʎ̯.

Features

Features of the alveolar lateral flap:

Found in

The Iwaidja

Iwaidja language

Iwaidja, in phonemic spelling Iwaja, is an Australian language with about 150 speakers in northernmost Australia. Historically from the base of the Cobourg Peninsula, it is now spoken on Croker Island...

 and Ilgar language

Ilgar language

Ilgar and Garig were dialects of an Australian language of northernmost Australia....

s of Australia have a palatal lateral flap as well as alveolar and retroflex lateral flap

Retroflex lateral flap

The retroflex lateral flap is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. It has no symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet, but an ad hoc symbol may be easily created .-Features:Features of the retroflex flap:...

s. However, the palatal flap has not been shown to be phonemic

Phoneme

In a language or dialect, a phoneme is the smallest segmental unit of sound employed to form meaningful contrasts between utterances....

; it may instead be an underlying sequence /ɺj/. An example from Ilgar is the personal name [miʎ̯arɡu].