The voiceless velar lateral fricative is a rare speech sound.

Although clearly fricatives, these are further forward than velars in most languages, and might better be called prevelar.

[1] In New Guinea, some of the Chimbu–Wahgi languages such as Melpa, Middle Wahgi, and Nii, have a voiceless velar lateral fricative, which they write with a double-bar el (Ⱡ, ⱡ).

This sound also appears in syllable coda position as an allophone of the voiced velar lateral fricative in Kuman.

Some scholars also posit a voiceless velar lateral approximant distinct from the fricative.