Alveolar approximant

The alveolar approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents the alveolar and postalveolar approximants is $\langle\rangle$, a lowercase letter r rotated 180 degrees. The equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is $\langler\\rangle$. There is no separate symbol for the dental approximant (as in Spanish nada) in the International Phonetic Alphabet, which most scholars transcribe with the symbol for voiced dental fricative, that is $\langle\rangle$.