Pronunciation
In most languages which use a Latin alphabet, ⟨v⟩ has a -like sound (voiced labiodental fricative). In most dialects of Spanish, it is pronounced the same as ⟨b⟩, or . In German and Dutch it is .
In Native American languages of North America (mainly Iroquoian), ⟨v⟩ represents a nasalized central vowel, /ə̃/.
In Chinese pinyin, ⟨v⟩ is not used, as there is no sound in Standard Mandarin; but the letter ⟨v⟩ is used by most input methods to enter letter ⟨ü⟩, which most keyboards lack. Romanised Chinese is a popular method to enter Chinese text phonetically.
In Irish, the letter ⟨v⟩ is mostly used in loanwords, such as veidhlín from English violin. However the sound appears naturally in Irish when /b/ is lenited or "softened", represented in the orthography by ⟨bh⟩, so that bhí is pronounced, an bhean (the woman) is pronounced, etc.
In the 19th century, ⟨v⟩ was sometimes used to transcribe a palatal click, a function since partly taken over by ⟨ç⟩.
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