Labiodental Consonant in IPA
The labiodental consonants identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet are:
| IPA | Description | Example | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Language | Orthography | IPA | Meaning | ||
| p̪ | voiceless labiodental stop | ||||
| b̪ | voiced labiodental stop | ||||
| p̪͡f | voiceless labiodental affricate | Tsonga | N/A | 'hippos' | |
| b̪͡v | voiced labiodental affricate | Tsonga | N/A | 'chin' | |
| ɱ | labiodental nasal | English | symphony | 'symphony' | |
| f | voiceless labiodental fricative | English | fan | 'fan' | |
| v | voiced labiodental fricative | English | van | 'van' | |
| ʋ | labiodental approximant | Dutch | wang | 'cheek' | |
| labiodental flap | Mono | vwa | 'send' | ||
| labiodental click | Nǁng | ʘoe | meat | ||
The IPA symbol ɧ refers to a sound occurring in Swedish, officially described as similar to the velar fricative, but one dialectal variant is a rounded, velarized labiodental, less ambiguously rendered as . The labiodental click is an allophonic variant of the (bi)labial click.
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