Voiceless alveolar lateral fricative

The voiceless alveolar lateral fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents voiceless dental, alveolar, and postalveolar lateral fricatives is $\langle\rangle$, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is $\langleK\rangle$. The letter $\langle\rangle$ is called "belted l" and should not be confused with "l with tilde", $\langle\rangle$, which transcribes a different sound, the velarized alveolar lateral approximant. It should also be distinguished from a voiceless alveolar lateral approximant, although the fricative is sometimes incorrectly described as a "voiceless l", a description fitting only of the approximant.

Several Welsh names beginning with this sound have been borrowed into English, where they either retain the Welsh $⟨ll⟩$ spelling but are pronounced with an (Lloyd, Llywelyn), or are substituted with  (Floyd, Fluellen).