The voiced alveolar approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages.The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents the alveolar and postalveolar approximants is ɹ , a lowercase letter r rotated 180 degrees. The equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is r\.. The most common sound represented by the letter r in English is the …

The voiced alveolar lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages.The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents dental, alveolar, and postalveolar lateral approximants is l , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is l.. As a sonorant, lateral approximants are nearly always voiced. Voiceless lateral approximants, /l̥/ are common …

An alveolar consonant is a consonant with the tongue close to the alveolar ridge, which is the part just behind our teeth.Alveolar consonants that are pronounced with the tip of the tongue, like in English, are called apical consonants while those pronounced using the blade of the tongue which is the flat part of the tongue behind the tip, are called laminal consonants.