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Main sound category: Lateral approximants
Sound category: voiced alveolar lateral approximant
IPA symbol: l
IPA description: voiced alveolar lateral approximant
UPSID symbol: l
UPSID description: voiced alveolar lateral approximant
Occurs in 212 languages
That is in 43.09% of all languages
Occurs in: Aari Abidji Abipon Abishira Achumawi Aghem Aizi Alawa Albanian Alladian Amele Amo Amuzgo Angas Ao Arrernte Baining Bambara Bandjalang Bardi Bariba Bashkir Bats Beembe Bengali_Bangladesh Bengali_Calcutta Bete Birom Bisa Bobo-fing Bodo Brahui Breton Burarra Cacua Camsa Cantonese Cayapa Cham Chamorro Cherokee Daju Dan Danish Dari Diegueno Dinka Diola Diyari Dutch Dyirbal English English_American English_Australian Ewondo Farsi Fijian Fur Ga Garawa Gbeya German Guahibo Guambiano Gwari Hadza Hamer Hausa Hebrew Hmong Huasteco Hupa Iban Iraqw Isoko Italian Italian_UPSID Itelmen Ivatan Jacaltec Jaqaru Jebero Jomang K'ekchi Kadugli Kala lagaw ya Kalkatungu Kam Kanakuru Kanuri Karen Kashmiri Kera Kirghiz Klamath Kolokuma ijo Koma Konkani Konyagi Korean Kota Kotoko Koya Kpelle Kunama Kven Kwaio Kwakw'ala Lame Lelemi Lenakel Lithuanian Lua Lue Luo Maasai Maba Maidu Malakmalak Mambila Mandarin Mapudungu Maranao Margi Maung Mbum Moro Movima Moxo Mumuye Murinhpatha Nahuatl Naxi Neo-aramaic Nepali NepaliOH Nez perce Ngarinjin Ngiyambaa Ngizim Nicobarese Nivkh Norwegian Norwegian_Bergen Norwegian_Elverum Norwegian_Malm Norwegian_Oslo Norwegian_Sandnessjøen Norwegian_Stavanger Norwegian_Tromsø Norwegian_Trondheim Nunggubuyu Nyangi Nyimang Pacoh Persian Phlong Polish Portuguese (Brasilian) Qawasqar Quileute Rukai Sa'ban Saliba Sandawe Sango Savosavo Selepet Serbian Sierra miwok Sinhalese Somali Songhai Spanish (Castilian) Sre Swahili Swedish Tabi Tagalog Tama Tamil Tampulma Teke Telugu Temein Temne Tera Thai Tiddim chin Tigre Tigrinya Tiruray Tiwi Totonac Tsimshian Tunica Ukrainian Urdu_Pakistan Uzbek Vanimo Waray Western desert Wik-munkan Yanyuwa Yaqui Yessan-mayo Yidiny Yolngu Yoruba Yucatec Zoque Zulu