Labiodental consonant

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IPA	Description	Example
		Language	Orthography	IPA	Meaning
	voiceless labiodental plosive Voiceless labiodental plosive The voiceless labiodental plosive is a consonant sound produced like a [p], but with the lower lip contacting the upper teeth, as in [f]. This can be represented in the International Phonetic Alphabet as ....
	voiced labiodental plosive Voiced labiodental plosive The voiced labiodental plosive is a consonant sound produced like a , but with the lower lip contacting the upper teeth, as in . This can be represented in the International Phonetic Alphabet as ....
	voiceless labiodental affricate Voiceless labiodental affricate A voiceless labiodental affricate is a rare consonant, which is initiated as a voiceless labiodental plosive , but released as a voiceless labiodental fricative ....	Tsonga Tsonga Tsonga may refer to:* Shangaan, the Tsonga people* Tsonga language* Jo-Wilfried Tsonga , French tennis player... 3	N/A		hippos Hippopotamus The hippopotamus or hippo is a large, mostly herbivore African mammal, one of only two Extant taxon species in the scientific classification Hippopotamidae ....
	voiced labiodental affricate Voiceless labiodental affricate A voiceless labiodental affricate is a rare consonant, which is initiated as a voiceless labiodental plosive , but released as a voiceless labiodental fricative ....	Tsonga Tsonga Tsonga may refer to:* Shangaan, the Tsonga people* Tsonga language* Jo-Wilfried Tsonga , French tennis player... 4	N/A		chin CHIN CHIN may refer to:* Canadian Heritage Information Network, a government agency in Canada that promotes Canadian culture and heritage on the Internet...
	labiodental nasal Labiodental nasal The labiodental nasal is a type of consonantal sound, used in some Speech communication languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is F....	English English language English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...	symphony1	]	symphony Symphony A symphony is a musical composition, often extended and usually for orchestra. "Symphony" does not imply a specific form. Many symphonies are tonality works in four movement with the first in sonata form, and this is often described by music theorists as the structure of a "Classical period " symphony, although even some symphonies by the ac...
	voiceless labiodental fricative Voiceless labiodental fricative The voiceless labiodental fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some Speech communication languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is f....	English English language English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...	fan		fan
	voiced labiodental fricative Voiced labiodental fricative The voiced labiodental fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some Speech communication languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is v....	English English language English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...	van		van Van A van is a kind of vehicle used for transporting goods or groups of people. It is usually a box-shaped vehicle on four wheels, about the same width and length as a large automobile, but taller and usually higher off the ground, also referred to as a light commercial vehicle or LCV....
	labiodental approximant Labiodental approximant The labiodental approximant is a type of consonantal sound, used in some Speech communication languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is P or v....	Dutch Dutch language Dutch is a West Germanic languages spoken by over 22 million people as a first language, and about 5 million people as a second language."1% of the EU population claims to speak Dutch well enough in order to have a conversation." Outside the European Union the number of second language speakers of Dutch is very small. Most native...	wang		cheek Cheek Cheeks constitute the area of the face below the eyes and between the nose and the left or right ear.It is fleshy in humans and other mammals, the skin being suspended by the chin and the jaws, and forming the lateral wall of the human mouth, visibly touching the cheekbone below the eye....
	voiceless rounded velarized labiodental fricative Voiceless palatal-velar fricative The so-called voiceless palatal-velar fricative covers a range of similar sounds used in most dialects of Swedish language and transcribed as ....	Swedish Swedish language Swedish is a North Germanic languages language, spoken by around 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along the coast and on the ?land islands.... 5	sjok		chunk

1. In English, is an allophone
   Allophone
   
   In phonetics, an allophone is one of several similar speech sounds that belong to the same phoneme. A phoneme is an abstract unit of speech sound that can distinguish words: That is, changing a phoneme in a word can produce another word....
    of /m/ that occurs before /v/ and /f/.
2. The stops (the plosives and the nasal ) are not confirmed to exist as separate phoneme
   Phoneme
   
   In human language, a phoneme is the smallest posited linguistically distinctive unit of sound. Phonemes carry no semantic content themselves. In theoretical terms, phonemes are not the physical segment s themselves, but cognitive abstractions or categorizations of them....
   s in any language. They are sometimes written as (qp and db monogram
   Monogram
   
   A monogram is a motif made by overlapping or combining two or more letters or other graphemes to form one symbol. Monograms are often made by combining the initials of an individual or a company, used as recognizable symbols or logos....
   s). They may also be found in children's speech or as speech impediments.
3. This applies only to the XiNkuna dialect of Tsonga where it is a separate phoneme (with aspirated and unaspirate allophones in free variation
   Free variation
   
   Free variation in linguistics is the phenomenon of two sounds or forms appearing in the same environment without a change in meaning and without being considered incorrect by native speakers....
   . Please note these differ from the German bilabial-labiodental affricate which commences with a bilabial p
   Voiceless bilabial plosive
   
   The voiceless bilabial plosive is a type of consonantal sound used in many Speech communication languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is p....
   .
4. Again, found only in the XiNkuna dialect.
5. Varies considerably between dialects. In some dialects a different sound is employed, similar to the velar fricative [x].

See also

• Place of articulation
  Place of articulation
  
  In articulatory phonetics, the place of articulation of a consonant is the point of contact, where an obstruction occurs in the vocal tract between an active articulator and a passive articulator ....
  
• List of phonetics topics
  List of phonetics topics
  
  A * Acoustic phonetics* Active articulator* Affricate* Airstream mechanism* Alfred C. Gimson* Allophone* Alveolar approximant* Alveolar consonant...
  
• Dentolabial consonant
  Dentolabial consonant
  
  Dentolabial consonants are articulated with the lower teeth against the upper lip, the reverse of labiodental consonants. They are rare cross linguistically, but one allophone of Swedish has been described as a velarization dentolabial fricative....