Occurrence
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abkhaz | европа | 'Europe' | See Abkhaz phonology | ||
| Afrikaans | wees | 'to be' | See IPA for Afrikaans | ||
| Albanian | valixhe | 'case' | |||
| Arabic | Siirt | ذهب | 'gold' | See Arabic phonology | |
| Armenian | Eastern | վեց | 'six' | ||
| Bai | Dali | ? | 'fish' | ||
| Catalan | Balearic | viu | 'live' | See Catalan phonology | |
| Valencian | |||||
| southern Catalonia | |||||
| Chechen | вашa / vaṣa | 'brother' | |||
| Czech | voda | 'water' | See Czech phonology | ||
| Dutch | All dialects | wraak | 'revenge' | Allophone of before /r/. See Dutch phonology | |
| Most dialects | vreemd | 'strange' | Can be devoiced to by certain speakers, mainly those from the Netherlands. See Dutch phonology | ||
| Standard | |||||
| English | valve | 'valve' | See English phonology | ||
| Ewe | ? | 'he is evil' | |||
| Faroese | røða | 'speech' | |||
| French | valve | 'valve' | See French phonology | ||
| Georgian | ვიწრო | 'narrow' | |||
| German | Wächter | 'guard' | See German phonology | ||
| Greek | βερνίκι verníki | 'varnish' | See Modern Greek phonology | ||
| Hebrew | גב | 'back' | See Modern Hebrew phonology | ||
| Hindi | व्रत | 'fast' | See Hindi-Urdu phonology | ||
| Hungarian | veszély | 'danger' | See Hungarian phonology | ||
| Irish | bhaile | 'home' | See Irish phonology | ||
| Italian | avare | 'miserly' (f.pl.) | See Italian phonology | ||
| Judaeo-Spanish | mueve | 'nine' | |||
| Kabardian | зэвы | 'narrow' | Corresponds to in Adyghe. | ||
| Macedonian | вода | 'water' | See Macedonian phonology | ||
| Maltese | iva | 'yes' | |||
| Norwegian | vann | 'water' | See Norwegian phonology | ||
| Occitan | Auvergnat | vol | 'flight' | See Occitan phonology | |
| Limousin | |||||
| Provençal | |||||
| Polish | wór | 'bag' | See Polish phonology | ||
| Portuguese | vila | 'hamlet', 'town', 'villa' | Historical Galician-Portuguese /β/ merged with /b/ in Galician and inland Northern Portuguese dialects, and shifted to /v/ in other dialects. See Portuguese phonology | ||
| Romanian | val | 'wave' | See Romanian phonology | ||
| Russian | волосы | 'hair' | Contrasts with palatalized form. See Russian phonology | ||
| Slovak | voda | 'water' | |||
| Spanish | afgano | 'Afghan' | Allophone of /f/ before voiced consonants. See Spanish phonology | ||
| Swedish | vägg | 'wall' | See Swedish phonology | ||
| Turkish | cetvel | 'ruler' | Allophone of /ʋ/ after voiceless consonants. See Turkish phonology | ||
| Vietnamese | và | 'and' | In southern dialects, is in free variation with . See Vietnamese phonology | ||
| Welsh | fi | 'I' | |||
| West Frisian | weevje | 'to weave' | Never occurs in word-initial positions. | ||
| Yi | ꃶ vu | 'intestines' | |||
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