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Vodka Vodka is typically a colorless liquid preparation meant for consumption containing ethyl alcohol (ethanol) purified by distillation from a fermented substance such as fruit, vegetables, or grain. The word shares a root with the word for "water" in various Slavic languages (voda, woda, вода).
Vodka Collins Vodka Collins is a Tokyo based Japanese-American rock band, formed in 1971 after the end of the Group Sounds era in Japan. A supergroup in the Japan domestic market, Vodka Collins' core band members are drummer Hiroshi Oguchi (formerly of The Tempters), singer-guitarist Alan Merrill, singer-guitarist Hiroshi "Monsieur" Kamayatsu (formerly of The Spiders) and bassist Take Yokouchi (formerly of the Four Leaves backing band, High Society).
Vodka Espresso The Vodka Espresso is a cocktail which was invented in 1984 by cocktail guru Dick Bradsell, while he was working at Fred's Bar in Soho, West End of London. According to Dick, a rather well known model came into the bar and asked him to mix her a drink that would “wake me up, and then fuck me up.
Vodka Villa Lobos Villa Lobos is a Mexican Vodka which has the unique selling point that the product features the "agave worm" (the larva of the Night Butterfly) more commonly found in Mezcal. The marketing of this product highlights the drinks links with Tequilas and was
Vodkapundit Vodkapundit and the Weblog of Tomorrow, is a weblog created by Stephen Green on January 10, 2002. Green, self described as a "gourmand, sybarite, and raconteur," operates a blog focuses on issues of politics, food, adult beverages, Green's own hobbies and personal pursuits, and general culture.
Vodnik (sports society) Vodnik (; English: Water transport worker) was the All-Union Voluntary Sports Society of Trade Unions of the sea and river transport. Established in 1938, when two VSS, Moryak (English: Sailor) and Vympel (English:Pennant), were combined.
Vodou The term Vodou (Vodu or Vudu in Benin; and Togo; also Vodon, Vodoun, Voudou, or other phonetically equivalent spellings. In Haiti; Vudu (an Ewe word, also used in the Dominican Republic) is by some individuals applied to the branches of a West African ancestral religious tradition.
Voere Voere is an Austrian gunmaker best known for its VEC-91 bolt-action rifle using caseless ammunition. The origins of the company date back to the 1948 establishment of the metal-working company Koma in West Germany.
Vog Vog, a portmanteau of Volcanic and fog by analogy with smog is volcanic smog formed when sulfur dioxide and other pollutants emitted by an erupting volcano mixes with oxygen and moisture in the presence of sunlight. The term is most often applied to Hawaii, where the Kilauea volcano has been erupting continuously since 1983.
Vogel (lunar crater) Vogel is a small lunar impact crater located to the southeast of Albategnius crater. It is the smallest member of a trio of craters that increase in size from north to south, consisting of the Vogel, Argelander and Airy craters.
Vogel Burda Group The Vogel Burda Group is a joint venture media company founded in the year 2000 by two of Germany's leading publishers, the Vogel Media Group and Hubert Burda Media. Its core activity is the publication of special-interest, country- and language-specific print and online media in the information and communication technology sector.
Vogelsberg Mountains The Vogelsberg Mountains are a group of low mountains in central Germany, located in the middle of the state of Hesse. They are the product of ancient volcanic activity and are separated from the Rhön Mountains by the Fulda River and its valley.
Vogliatemi bene Vogliatemi bene ("Love me") is one of the most famous arias from Puccini's Madama Butterfly, and a staple of the verismo canon. This aria was often performed by the legendary soprano Maria Callas, and her recording of it continues to be a favorite of opera aficionados.
Vogon Constructor Fleet The Vogon Constructor Fleet is the fleet of alien spaceships in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that demolishes the Earth to make way for a hyperspace bypass, 5 minutes before the 10 million year program to calculate the Ultimate Question would have finished. Altogether they can produce the same level of power as the Death Star, it seems they've been demolishing planets for many years as the procedure comes as second nature.
Vogt Vogt (also Voigt; plural Vögte; Dutch voogd; Danish foged; Polish: Wójt; equivalent in Latin advocatus) is probably derived from Old High German vogeten, "to protect". Originally, it referred in medieval German-speaking areas to the guardianship or military protection executed by an overlord over ecclesiastical institutions and their territory.
Vogt Lo-100 The Lo-100 is an aerobatic glider of classic wood and fabric construction well suited to amateur building methods. The designation Lo was bestowed by the designer Alfred Vogt in memory of his brother Lothar Vogt, with whom he had developed the predecessor model Lo-105 Zwergreiher ('dwarf heron').
Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome (VKH syndrome) is a condition seen in humans and dogs characterized by uveitis (inflammation of the inside of the eye), poliosis (whitening of hair), vitiligo (loss of pigment in the skin), and meningitis, although dogs with this syndrome rarely develop meningitis. It is also known as uveodermatologic syndrome.
Vogtland The Vogtland is a region in the German states of Bavaria, Saxony and Thuringia and is a small part of the Czech Republic. The name contains a reference to the former leadership by the Voigts of Weida, Gera and Plauen.
Vogtlandkreis The Vogtlandkreis is a Landkreis (rural district) in the southwest of the Free State of Saxony, Germany, at the borders to Thuringia, Bavaria, and the Czech Republic. Neighboring districts are (from south clockwise) Hof, Saale-Orla, Greiz, Zwickauer Land, Aue-Schwarzenberg.
Vogue (dance) Vogue ("Performance") is a form of modern dance characterized by photo model-like poses integrated with angular, linear and rigid arm, leg, and body movements. Although often associated with Madonna's efforts to introduce it to mainstream popular culture, vogue as a subculture was in existence long before the release of her song, also titled "Vogue.
Vogue (single) Vogue is a KMFDM single released following the 1992 album Money. It contains alternate versions of the songs "Vogue" and "Sex on the Flag", both off of Money as well as two remixes of the song "Split" from Split
Voice - The Best of Tour Voice - The Best of Tour was a concert tour by British singer-songwriter Beverley Knight, organised to support the album Voice - The Best of Beverley Knight. It began on November 9, 2006 in Cardiff and ended on December 6, 2006 in Plymouth.
Voice (album) Voice is the title of the sixth solo music recording/album of singer Alison Moyet. It is a covers album, though not a typical one for a singer such as Moyet; the tracks chosen are slow-tempo, classic songs from a number of different genres, designed to showcase the singer's voice.
Voice (phonetics) In phonetics, voice or voicing is one of the three major parameters used to describe a sound. It is usually treated as a binary parameter with sounds being described as either voiceless (unvoiced) or voiced, although in fact there can be degrees of voicing (see below).
Voice acting Voice acting is the art of providing voices for animated characters (including those in feature films, television series, animated shorts), doing voice-overs in radio and television commercials, audio dramas, dubbed foreign language films, video games, puppet shows, and amusement rides. An individual who performs such voice-only roles is known as a voice actor or actress or as a voice artist.
Voice activity detection Voice activity detection or voice activity detector is an algorithm used in speech processing wherein, the presence or absence of human speech is detected from the audio samples. The main uses of VAD are in speech coding and speech recognition.
Voice Activated Radio Dispatched Alarm A Voice Activated Radio Dispatched Alarm, or VARDA-alarm, is a type of burglar alarm that, when activated or 'tripped', broadcasts the type and location of alarm over the local police radio frequency using a pre-recorded audio message.
Voice coil A voice coil (also known as Bobbin, Collar and Winding) is the coil of wire attached to the apex of the moving cone of a loudspeaker. It provides the motive force to the cone by the reaction of a magnetic field to the current passing through it.
Voice command device A Voice Command Device is a [controlled by means of the human voice. By removing the need to use button]s, [[dials and switches, consumers can easily operate appliances with their hands full or while doing other tasks.
Voice font A voice font is a computer-generated voice that can be controlled by specifying parameters such as speed and pitch and made to pronounce text input. The concept is akin to that of a text font or a MIDI instrument in the sense that the same input may easily be represented in several different ways based on the design of each font.
Voice for Animals Humane Society The Voice for Animals Humane Society (V4A) in Edmonton, Alberta is a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting animals, through advocacy and education, from neglect, abuse and exploitation. This volunteer organization helps animals of all kinds through animal rescue, education, lobbying politicians, protests, letter writing and petitions.
Voice for Life Voice for Life is New Zealand's oldest pro-life group, founded by pioneering New Zealand fetal surgeon Dr (Alfred) William Liley(1929-1983) in 1970, who became its first president. As time has gone on, its membership has aged, died off, and diminished.
Voice Funnel The Voice Funnel was an experimental high-speed interface between digitized speech streams and a packet-switching communications network, built 1979-1981. It may be viewed as a very early "Voice over IP" telephone.
Voice Industrie Voice Industrie is an electronic dance band from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Currently signed to the A Different Drum label, band members Alan Levesque and Francis Tetrault have described their sound as Depeche Mode meets Underworld.
Voice leading In music, voice leading is the relationship between the succesive pitches of simultaneous moving parts or voices. For example, when moving from a root position C triad or chord played C–E–G to a 6/4 chord over the same bass, you might say that the middle "voice" rises from E to F while the top "voice" rises from G to A, this being a way to "lead" those voices.
Voice Letter Voice Letter (목소리 Moksori) is a 2005 South Korean horror film. It is the fourth official entry in the series that began with 1998's Whispering Corridors, and was the debut film for three of its young actresses and director Choi Ik-hwan, who had served as an assistant director on Whispering Corridors.
Voice modem command set A voice modem is a term commonly used to describe an analog telephone data modem with a built-in capability of transmitting and receiving voice recordings over the phone line. Voice modems are used for telephony and answering machine applications.
Voice of America Voice of America (VOA) is the official international radio and television broadcasting service of the United States federal government. It is vaguely similar to other international broadcasters such as the BBC World Service, Deutsche Welle, Radio Netherlands, Radio France Internationale, Voice of Russia and Radio Canada International, although these other agencies are not fully government-controlled.
Voice of America Bethany Relay Station The Voice of America's Bethany Relay Station was located in Butler County, Ohio's Union Township about 25 miles (40 km) north of Cincinnati, adjacent to the transmitter site of WLW. Starting in 1944 during World War II it transmitted American propaganda abroad on shortwave frequencies, using 200,000-watt transmitters built by Crosley engineers under the direction of R.
Voice of America Jazz Hour The Voice of America Jazz Hour was broadcast on Voice of America beginning on January 6, 1955 and through 2003; it was then folded into Voice of America Music Mix's program Jazz America. It began broadcasting in 1955, hosted by Willis Conover; in its current form, it is hosted by Russ Davis.
Voice of Asia Voice of Asia (Kazakh: Азия Даусы, Russian: Голос Азии) is a music festival, held annually in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The usual venue for the festival is the outdoor Medeo speed skating rink, situated on the mountainous outskirts of Tian Shan, several kilometers away from the Almaty center.
Voice of Beslan Voice of Beslan is splinter group from Mothers of Beslan support group of parents of children killed in the 2004 North Ossetian Beslan school hostage crisis wherein more than 365 people were killed. The group's chairman is Ella Kesayeva.
Voice of Democracy Created in 1947, the Voice of Democracy (VOD) scholarship program is an audio-essay contest for high school students in grades 9-12 that annually provides more than $3 million in scholarships. The first-place winner, who competes with all the first-place VFW Department winners, receives a $30,000 scholarship that is paid directly to the recipient’s American university, college or vocational/technical school.
Voice of Free China The Voice of Free China was the international broadcasting station of the Republic of China at Taiwan from 1949 until 1998. During the Cold War era the station was the source of Chinese Nationalist propaganda largely aimed at discrediting the People's Republic of China and buttressing the Nationalists' claims to be the sole legitimate government of all of China.
Voice of Freedom Voice of Freedom is a newsgathering organization and advocacy group that aims to inform citizens about "actions by our government that affect our...Freedom of Speech, Freedom to Peaceably Assemble and Freedom to petition the Government to redress of grievances".
Voice of Iraq The Voice of Iraq ( lit: Idha'atu Sawt Il-Iraq) is a privately owned radio station in Iraq that has broadcast since August 27, 2003.Country profile: Iraq BBC News It broadcasts in Arabic, Turkmen and English on medium wave in Baghdad and nearby towns including Ba'qubah and Fallujah to an area with 12 million inhabitants.
Voice of Korea (Montreal) Voice of Korea is an hour-long program broadcast every Tuesday at 2PM on CKUT radio in Montreal. Entirely created by volunteers composed of 1st and 2nd-generation Koreans as well as other Asians, Voice of Korea features content for both the local Korean Community and local residents through its bilingual (English and Korean) programming.
Voice of Palestine Voice Of Palestine () The station was originally known as the Voice of Palestinian Revolution before the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords. The Station was launched on 17 October 1998 as a subsidiary of the Palestinian Broadcasting CorporationThe first experimental transmissions included musical programs, songs and news bulletins in addition to health, culture, and sports programs.
Voice of Peace The Voice of Peace (Hebrew: קול השלום - Kol Hashalom) was a radio station that serviced Israel and the Middle East for 20 years. The station signed on the air in May 1973 from the former Dutch cargo vessel MV Peace (formally MV Cito).
Voice of Russia Voice of Russia is the Russian government's international radio broadcasting service. Its predecessor 'Radio Moscow' was the official international broadcasting station of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Voice of the Faithful Voice of the Faithful is an organization, formed in response to the Roman Catholic sex abuse cases, by some Boston-based Roman Catholic laity who felt that those guilty of abusing children, or failing to protect children, should be brought to account. It got its start when some parishioners met in the basement of a church.
Voice of the Heart (Carpenters album) Voice of the Heart is an album by American pop duo The Carpenters. It was released in 1983 after Karen's untimely death and contains material from her final recording sessions, as well as previously unreleased tracks from sessions over the years.
Voice of the Martyrs Voice of the Martyrs (VOM) is the name of several related Christian organizations founded through the influence of Pastor Richard Wurmbrand in such countries as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. These VOM missions raise awareness of the fact that hundreds of thousands of Christian martyrs - those being killed because of their Christian faith - each year, and many more who are tortured, imprisoned and harassed for being Christians.
Voice of the Wallis and Futuna Peoples The Voice of the Wallis and Futuna Peoples (French: La Voix des Peuples Wallisens et Futuniens) is a political party in the French collectivité d'outre-mer of Wallis and Futuna. In the latest legislative elections of March 10, 2002, it won, together with the Rally for the Republic, 13 out of 20 seats in the Territorial Assembly.
Voice over IP Security Alliance The Voice over IP Security Alliance (VOIPSA) was launched in early 2005 to bring together Voice over IP and information security vendors, providers, and thought leaders to address current and emerging security threats to VoIP. The stated mission statement is:
Voice Of God Collective A group led by guitarist Billy Jenkins, working mainly in the 1980s and 1990s. He used many of Britain's finest young jazz musicians, whom he plucked from obsurity while they rehearsed at Wood Wharf Studios in Greenwich, such as Django Bates, Iain Ballamy, The Fun Horns of Berlin and Steve Arguelles.
Voice On the Net Voice Over the Net (aka VON) is a conference and expo focused on Voice over IP industry. The VON Coalition was established to be an industry voice to government organizations such as the FCC and influence government decisions that are made.
Voice procedure Voice procedure includes various techniques used to clarify, simplify and standardize spoken communications over two-way radios, in use by the military, in civil aviation, police and fire dispatching systems, citizens' band radio (CB), etc.
Voice projection Voice projection is a strength of speaking or singing whereby the voice is used loudly and clearly. It is a technique employed to demand respect and attention, such as when a teacher is talking to the class, or simply just to be heard clearly, as an actor in a theatre.
Voice stress analysis Voice stress analysis (VSA) is a controversial technology that attempts to examine and measure a physiological stress component, by extracting micro tremors from the voice of a person and measuring their amplitude. Voice stress analysis is often applied as a type of lie detector.
Voice therapy (trans) Voice therapy or voice training refers to any non-surgical technique used to improve or modify the human voice. Because voice is a gender cue, transsexual women frequently undertake voice therapy as a part of gender transition in order to make their voices sound female, and therefore increase their passability as females in society.
Voice vote A voice vote in a legislative body refers to a vote taken on a topic where the participants respond to a question with "yea" (yes), "nay" (no), or "present" (abstain). Typically the chairperson or speaker of the assembly will ask a question to the effect of "All in favor?
Voice-over Voice-over describes the technique by which any disembodied voice is broadcast live or pre-recorded in radio, theater, industrial shows, fashion shows, presentations, television commercials, television programs, animation and live-action films.
Voice-tracking Voice tracking, also called cyber jocking and referred to sometimes colloquially as a robojock, is a technique employed by some radio stations to produce the illusion of a live disc jockey or announcer sitting in the studios of the station when one is not actually present.
Voiceband In electronics, voiceband means the typical human hearing frequency range that is from 20 Hz to 20 kHz. In telephony, it means the frequency range normally transmitted by a telephone line, generally about 200–3600 Hz.
VoiceBox Technologies VoiceBox is a company focused on speech recognition, search and information management. The company licenses its technology to makers of telematics, digital home, mobile phone and VoIP solutions, including:http://www.
VoiceCast VoiceCasting is the distribution of audio files, such as radio programs or interviews, directly to a telephone. The audio is taken from a Podcast, and played back live to a listener over the voice telephone network.
Voiced alveolar affricate The voiced alveolar affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is (previously ) , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is dz.
Voiced alveolar implosive The voiced alveolar implosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is d_<.
Voiced alveolar lateral fricative The voiced alveolar lateral fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents voiced dental, alveolar, and postalveolar lateral fricatives is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is K.
Voiced alveolar plosive The voiced alveolar plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents voiced dental, alveolar, and postalveolar plosives is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is d.
Voiced alveolo-palatal affricate The voiced alveolo-palatal affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound are , alternatively but unofficially (entity 677), and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is dz.
Voiced alveolo-palatal fricative The voiced alveolo-palatal voiceless or laminal postalveolar fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is z.
Voiced bilabial fricative The voiced bilabial fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is B.
Voiced bilabial implosive A voiced bilabial implosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is b_<.
Voiced bilabial plosive The voiced bilabial plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is b.
Voiced dental fricative The voiced dental non-sibilant fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represent this sound, "eth", are and Ð (lowercase and uppercase, respectively), and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is D.
Voiced dental implosive The voiced dental implosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is d_n_<.
Voiced dental plosive The voiced dental plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is d_d.
Voiced epiglottal fricative The voiced epiglottal approximant/fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is <.
Voiced glottal fricative The breathy-voiced glottal transition, commonly called a "voiced glottal fricative", is a type of sound used in some spoken languages which often behaves like a consonant, but sometimes behaves more like a vowel, or is indeterminate in its behavior. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is h.
Voiced labial-velar approximant The voiced labiovelar (actually labialized velar) approximant is a type of consonantal sound, used in certain spoken languages, including English. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is w.
Voiced labiodental fricative The voiced labiodental fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is v.
Voiced palatal fricative The voiced palatal fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is (crossed-tail j), and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is j.
Voiced palatal implosive The voiced palatal implosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is J_<.
Voiced palatal plosive The voiced palatal plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is J.
Voiced pharyngeal fricative The voiced pharyngeal approximant/fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is ?
Voiced postalveolar affricate The voiced palato-alveolar fricative or domed postalveolar affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is [dZ].
Voiced postalveolar fricative The voiced palato-alveolar fricative or domed postalveolar fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is <>, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is Z.
Voiced retroflex affricate The voiced retroflex affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound are , sometimes simplified to , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is dz.
Voiced retroflex fricative The voiced retroflex fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is z`.
Voiced retroflex plosive The voiced retroflex plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is d`.
Voiced uvular fricative The voiced uvular fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is R.
Voiced uvular implosive The voiced uvular implosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , a small capital letter G with a rightward pointing hook extending from the upper right of the letter.
Voiced uvular plosive The voiced uvular plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is G.
Voiced velar fricative The voiced velar fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in various spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is (a variant of the Greek letter gamma, which is used for this sound in Modern Greek), and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is G.
Voiced velar implosive The voiced velar implosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is g_<.
Voiceless alveolar affricate The voiceless alveolar affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is (previously ), and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is ts.
Voiceless alveolar fricative The voiceless alveolar fricatives are consonantal sounds. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents these sounds depends on whether a sibilant or non-sibilant fricative is being described.
Voiceless alveolar lateral affricate The voiceless alveolar lateral affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet is (or ), and in Americanist phonetic notation it is (lambda bar).

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