Bilabial ejective fricative

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The bilabial ejective fricative is a rare type of consonantal sound. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ɸʼ⟩.

Bilabial ejective fricative
ɸʼ
IPA Number	126 + 401
Encoding
Entity (decimal)	`ɸʼ`
Unicode (hex)	U+0278 U+02BC
X-SAMPA	`p\_>`

Features

Features of the bilabial ejective fricative:

Its manner of articulationisfricative, which means it is produced by constricting air flow through a narrow channel at the place of articulation, causing turbulence.
Its place of articulationisbilabial, which means it is articulated with both lips.
Its phonation is voiceless, which means it is produced without vibrations of the vocal cords.
It is an oral consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth only.
The airstream mechanismisejective (glottalic egressive), which means the air is forced out by pumping the glottis upward.

Family	Language		Word	IPA	Meaning	Notes
Iroquoian	Yuchi^[1]		^{[example needed]}

^ Crawford, James M. (1973). "Yuchi Phonology". International Journal of American Linguistics. 39 (3): 173–179. doi:10.1086/465261. S2CID 224808560.

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