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Voiceless labiodental fricative

Consonantal sound represented by ⟨f⟩ in IPA

Voiceless labiodental fricative
f
IPA Number	128
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Entity (decimal)	f
Unicode (hex)	U+0066
X-SAMPA	f
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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 ⟨f⟩.

Some scholars also posit the voiceless labiodental approximant distinct from the fricative. The approximant may be represented in the IPA as ⟨ʋ̥⟩.

Features[edit]

Features of the voiceless labiodental 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 articulationislabiodental, which means it is articulated with the lower lip and the upper teeth.
• 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.
• Because the sound is not produced with airflow over the tongue, the central–lateral dichotomy does not apply.
• The airstream mechanismispulmonic, which means it is articulated by pushing air solely with the intercostal muscles and abdominal muscles, as in most sounds.

Occurrence[edit]

See also[edit]

• List of phonetics topics

Notes[edit]

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External links[edit]

• List of languages with [f]onPHOIBLE