ɫ

Lushootseed

noun

pastəducid

1. The twenty-third letter of the dxʷləšucid alphabet, pronounced as a voiceless lateral alveolar fricative.

   • The pronunciation is made as though holding the tongue in place at the "l" sound in the word "clay".

   Examples: ɫabac, ɫuɫaɫlil, tiʔiɫ

usage notes: When written as ɫ, this letter is called the "barred l", and when written as ɬ, it is called "looped l." On this LutWik, only the ɫ symbol is used to avoid confusion.

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sources

• 1994, Dawn Bates, Thom Hess and Vi Hilbert, Lushootseed Dictionary, ISBN 0-295-97323-4, University of Washington Press, p. xiii
• 1995, Thom Hess and Vi [taqʷšəblu] Hilbert, Lushootseed: The language of the Skagit Nisqually, and other tribes of Puget Sound, an Introduction: Book I, Lushootseed Press, chapter 1
• 2008, Jan P. van Eijk, First Nations University of Canada, A Bibliography of Salish Linguistics in "Northwest Journal of Linguistics", vol. 2, no. 3, p. 8
• Wikipedia entry on Lushootseed