Velarized alveolar lateral approximant ||This article needs
additional citations for verification. (June 2007)| |Velarized
alveolar lateral approximant| |Unicode (hex)||U+006C U+02E0| The
velarized alveolar lateral approximant, also known as dark l, is
a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The
regular symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that
represents this sound is ⟨lˠ⟩, though the dedicated letter ⟨ɫ⟩
is perhaps more common. Depending on language and dialect, this
sound may instead be pharyngealized. Velarization and
pharyngealization are generally associated with more dental
articulations of coronal consonants so that dark l tends to be
dental or denti-alveolar while clear l tends to be retracted to
an alveolar position. Features of the velarized alveolar lateral
approximant: - Its manner of articulation is approximant, which
means it is produced by narrowing the vocal tract at the place
of articulation, but not enough to produce a turbulent
airstream. - Its place of articula