Voiceless Labiodental Fricative
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The voiceless labiodental fricative 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 number of spoken
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s. 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 . Some scholars also posit the voiceless labiodental approximant distinct from the fricative. The approximant may be represented in the IPA as .


Features

Features of the voiceless labiodental fricative:


Occurrence


See also

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Notes

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References

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External links

* {{IPA navigation Fricative consonants Pulmonic consonants Voiceless oral consonants Voiceless labial approximants