Josh Roth wrote:
>Eloshtan also has lateral fricatives unvoiced and voiced, written
>ll and rr, respectively. They are alveolar in the standard dialect,
>though in some (there are about ten dialects) they are
>postalveolar, and in others they become nonlateral (there has to be
>another word for that!)
There is! Its called "central". You have lateral approximants (the
well know /l/) and central approximants (such as the /r/ sound in
"run" and the /j/ sound in "yes"). You also have the same contrast
between lateral and central fricatives.
-kristian- 8)