voiceless velar lateral affricate

{{Short description|Consonantal sound represented by ⟨kʟ̝̊⟩ in IPA}}

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| ipa symbol = k𝼄

| ipa symbol2 = kʟ̝̊

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The voiceless velar lateral affricate is a relatively uncommon speech sound found as a phoneme in the Caucasus and as an allophone in several languages of eastern and southern Africa. In strict IPA, it needs to be transcribed with diacritics, but a proper letter exists in extIPA: {{angbr|k͜𝼄}}.

Archi, a Northeast Caucasian language of Dagestan, has two such affricates, plain {{IPA|[k𝼄]}} and labialized {{IPA|[k𝼄ʷ]}}, though they are further forward than velars in most languages, and might better be called prevelar. Archi also has ejective variants of its lateral affricates, several voiceless lateral fricatives, and a voiced lateral fricative at the same place of articulation, but no alveolar lateral fricatives or affricates.[http://www.smg.surrey.ac.uk/media/1267/archi-tutorialhandout.pdf The Archi Language Tutorial]. The source uses the symbol for the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative for the fricative part of this sound ({{angbr IPA|k͡ɬ}}), but also indicates the sound to be prevelar.

In Hiw, a language spoken in Vanuatu, the lateral affricate occurs as an allophone of {{IPA|/g͡ʟ/}}, a prestopped velar lateral.

Zulu and Xhosa have a voiceless lateral affricate as an allophone of their voiceless velar affricate. Hadza has an ejective velar lateral affricate as an allophone of its velar ejective affricate. Indeed, in Hadza this {{IPA|[k͜𝼄ʼ]}} contrasts with a palatal lateral ejective affricate, {{IPA|[c͜𝼆ʼ]}}. ǁXegwi is reported to have contrasted velar {{IPA|/k͜𝼄/}} from alveolar {{IPA|/t͜ɬ/}}.