The voiceless retroflex lateral fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The IPA has no officially recognized symbol for this sound. However, in the literature the "belt" on the recognized symbol for a voiceless lateral fricative is combined with the tail of the retroflex consonants to create the ad hoc symbol ⟨ɬ̢⟩ ( ).
Now that font-editing software has become accessible, well-designed glyphs for this and other non-sanctioned lateral fricatives will occasionally be seen:
Indeed, SIL International added these symbols to the Private Use Area of their Charis and Doulos fonts, with the retroflex as U+F266 (). In 2008 the Unicode Technical Committee accepted this character as U+A78E ꞎ latin small letter l with retroflex hook and belt (HTML: ꞎ), which is included in Unicode 6.0 (See Lateral consonant).
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