Voiceless palatal lateral fricative

The voiceless palatal lateral fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in a few spoken languages.

This is a rare sound. Dahalo has both a palatal lateral fricative and an affricate; Hadza has a series of affricates. In Bura, it is the realization of palatalized and contrasts with.

The IPA has no dedicated symbol for this sound. The devoicing and raising diacritics may be used to transcribe it: $\langle\rangle$ (decimal &amp;#654;&amp;#805;&amp;#724;). However, the "belt" on the existing symbol for a voiceless lateral fricative, $\langle\rangle$, forms the basis for occasional ad hoc symbols for the other lateral fricatives, the third one, $\langle&thinsp;\rangle$, representing the palatal lateral fricative:



Indeed, SIL International has added these symbols to the Private Use Areas of their Gentium, Charis, and Doulos fonts, as U+F267 ( ).