The voiced labiodental approximant is a type of
consonant
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al sound, used in some
spoken language
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s. It is something between an
English /
w/ and /
v/, pronounced with the teeth and lips held in the position used to articulate the letter
V. The symbol in the
International Phonetic Alphabet
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that represents this sound is , a
letter ''v'' with a leftward hook protruding from the upper right of the letter, and the equivalent
X-SAMPA symbol is
P ''or''
v\. With an advanced diacritic, , this letter also indicates a
bilabial approximant, though the diacritic is frequently omitted because no contrast is likely.
The labiodental approximant is the typical realization of in the
Indian South African variety of English. As the voiceless is also realized as an approximant (), it is also an example of a language contrasting voiceless and voiced labiodental approximants.
Features
Features of the voiced labiodental approximant:
Occurrence
See also
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List of phonetics topics
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* Acoustic phonetics
* Active articulator
* Affricate
* Airstream mechanism
* Alexander John Ellis
* Alexander Melville Bell
* Alfred C. Gimson
* Allophone
* Alveolar approximant ()
* Alveolar click ()
* Alveolar consonant
* Alveolar e ...
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''R''-labialization
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Rhotacism (speech impediment)
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: pronouncing as
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