The voiceless labial–palatal fricative or approximant is a type of

consonant In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract, except for the h sound, which is pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract. Examples are and pronou ...

al sound, used in a few spoken languages. The symbol in the

International Phonetic Alphabet The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script. It was devised by the International Phonetic Association in the late 19th century as a standard written representation ...

that represents this sound is or .Patricia Ashby (2013) ''Speech Sounds''. Routledge. 2nd edition, p. 82, 116 The former – more accurately the voiceless labialized palatal fricative by those who consider it to be a fricative – is the voiceless counterpart of the

voiced labial–palatal approximant The voiced labial–palatal (or labio-palatal) approximant is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages, for example, French , read as �itjɛm It has two constrictions in the vocal tract: with the tongue on the palate, and ro ...

. Other linguists posit

voiceless approximant Approximants are speech sounds that involve the articulators approaching each other but not narrowly enough nor with enough articulatory precision to create turbulent airflow. Therefore, approximants fall between fricatives, which do produ ...

s distinct from voiceless fricatives; to them, is a voiceless labialized palatal approximant.

Features

or *The

place of articulation In articulatory phonetics, the place of articulation (also point of articulation) of a consonant is an approximate location along the vocal tract where its production occurs. It is a point where a constriction is made between an active and a pa ...

of is

palatal The palate () is the roof of the mouth in humans and other mammals. It separates the oral cavity from the nasal cavity. A similar structure is found in crocodilians, but in most other tetrapods, the oral and nasal cavities are not truly sepa ...

; it is also

labialized Labialization is a secondary articulatory feature of sounds in some languages. Labialized sounds involve the lips while the remainder of the oral cavity produces another sound. The term is normally restricted to consonants. When vowels invol ...

.Florence Abena Dolphyne (1988) ''The Akan (Twi-Fante) Language: Its Sound Systems and Tonal Structure'', p.44 The place of articulation of is palatal and

bilabial In phonetics, a bilabial consonant is a labial consonant articulated with both lips. Frequency Bilabial consonants are very common across languages. Only around 0.7% of the world's languages lack bilabial consonants altogether, including Tling ...

Occurrence

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Voiceless labial-palatal fricative Fricative consonants Bilabial consonants Palatal consonants Voiceless oral consonants Central consonants Pulmonic consonants Voiceless labially co-articulated approximants