What is "barred-L"

[Alan H. Hartley]

Francisc Czobor wrote:

> My first questions is about the "barred-L" sound, found in the PNW Native
> languages and also in Chinook Wawa (at least in its form spoken by Natives).
> The usual description of this sound is "a voiceless lateral fricative".
> This means that it should be something similar to Welsh "ll" or to
> Tibetan "lh" (as in Lhasa).

Another analogy is with -thl- in English 'fifthly', a helpful--if not
quite accurate--approximation for those who don't speak Welsh or Tibetan.

Alan

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