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Main sound category: Lateral approximants
Sound category: voiced alveolar lateral approximant
IPA symbol: *l
IPA description: voiced dental/alveolar lateral approximant
UPSID symbol: "l
UPSID description: voiced dental/alveolar lateral approximant
Occurs in 133 languages
That is in 27.03% of all languages
Occurs in: Alabama Aleut Amharic Andamanese Archi Atayal Avar Awiya Axluxlay Azerbaijani Bakairi Basque Batak Beja Bella coola Berta Brao Bruu Burmese Burushaski Changzhou Chatino Chipewyan Chuvash Cuna Dagbani Dagur Dahalo Dakota Dani Dizi Doayo Dogon Even Ewe Eyak Fuzhou Gelao Gugu-yalanji Haida Hakka Hawaiian Highland chinantec Hindi-urdu Huave Iate Igbo Ik Iranxe Island carib Itonama Javanese Jingpho Kaliai Kawaiisu Kefa Khalkha Khanty Kharia Khmu? Komi Koryak Kullo Kunimaipa Kurdish Kurukh Lahu Lai Lak Lakkia Lungchow Malagasy Mari Mazahua Mazatec Mba-ne Mbabaram Mien Mixtec Moghol Monguor Mursi Nambakaengo Nanai Navajo Ndut Nenets Nera Newari Nganasan Noni Nubian Nyah kur Ogbia Ojibwa Ormuri Parauk Paya Picuris Po-ai Pomo Quechua Rutul Saami Sama Sebei Sedang Selkup Senadi Shilha Shuswap Socotri Sui Taishan Taoripi Tarascan Tarok Tetun Tlapanec Tol Turkish Upper chehalis Wappo Waris West makian Wiyot Woisika Yana Yay Yuchi Yukaghir Yupik Zuni