The voiceless labiodental fricative is a type of
consonantal sound used in a number of
spoken languages. The symbol in the
International Phonetic Alphabet 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
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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 ej ...
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Fricative consonants
Pulmonic consonants
Voiceless oral consonants