The voiceless labiodental plosive or stop is a consonant sound produced like a
but with the lower lip contacting the upper teeth, as in
This can be represented in the
IPA
IPA commonly refers to:
* India pale ale, a style of beer
* International Phonetic Alphabet, a system of phonetic notation
* Isopropyl alcohol, a chemical compound
IPA may also refer to:
Organizations International
* Insolvency Practitioners ...
as . A separate symbol not recognized by the IPA that was occasionally seen, especially in
Bantu
Bantu may refer to:
*Bantu languages, constitute the largest sub-branch of the Niger–Congo languages
*Bantu peoples, over 400 peoples of Africa speaking a Bantu language
* Bantu knots, a type of African hairstyle
*Black Association for National ...
linguistics, is the ''qp''
ligature
Ligature may refer to:
* Ligature (medicine), a piece of suture used to shut off a blood vessel or other anatomical structure
** Ligature (orthodontic), used in dentistry
* Ligature (music), an element of musical notation used especially in the me ...
.
The voiceless labiodental plosive is possibly not
phonemic
In phonology and linguistics, a phoneme () is a unit of sound that can distinguish one word from another in a particular language.
For example, in most dialects of English, with the notable exception of the West Midlands and the north-west ...
in any language, though see the entry on
Shubi. However, it does occur
allophonically. The XiNkuna dialect of
Tsonga has
affricates, and . German ranges between , , and .
Features
Features of the voiceless labiodental stop:
Varieties
Occurrence
See also
*
List of phonetics topics
A
* Acoustic phonetics
* Active articulator
* Affricate
* Airstream mechanism
* Alexander John Ellis
* Alexander Melville Bell
* Alfred C. Gimson
* Allophone
* Alveolar approximant ()
* Alveolar click ()
* Alveolar consonant
* Alveolar ej ...
References
External links
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Pulmonic consonants
Voiceless oral consonants
Voiceless stops