The palatal lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is Palatal lateral approximant, resembling a turned letter "y" (and not to be confused with lowercase lambda, λ), and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is L .
Latin alphabet Yeísmo International Phonetic Alphabet Sissano language Egressive Enindhilyagwa language Scottish Gaelic alphabet Danish and Norwegian alphabet Hungarian ly Croatian alphabet Slovene alphabet Portuguese orthography Italian alphabet Hungarian alphabet Catalan orthography Spanish orthography Macedonian alphabet Modern Greek phonology Oral consonant Italian phonology Norwegian phonology Airstream mechanism Catalan phonology Hard palate Lambda Portuguese phonology Spanish phonology Gemination Aymara language Gascon language Speech X-SAMPA Franco-Provençal language Manner of articulation Glottis Phonation Place of articulation Faroese language Approximant consonant Lateral consonant
