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Language with Rolled Ls?
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ChristopherB
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14 March 2010 at 3:19am | IP Logged

I think I know what Iversen is referring to, an "l" which is also used in Welsh and Greenlandic. I often refer to it as the "Daffy Duck l".
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14 March 2010 at 3:32am | IP Logged

ChristopherB wrote:

I think I know what Iversen is referring to, an "l" which is also
used in Welsh and Greenlandic. I often refer to it as the "Daffy Duck l".

That is a voiceless l, a voiceless l which the Wikipedia chart said Icelandic has.
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