The alveolar lateral ejective fricative is a type of consonantal sound, reported in the Northwest Caucasian languages and in Modern South Arabian languages.
The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ɬʼ⟩.
Features of the alveolar lateral ejective fricative: [ɬʼ] occurs in the reconstructed Proto-Semitic language.
[1] Symbols to the right in a cell are voiced, to the left are voiceless.
Shaded areas denote articulations judged impossible.