In phonetics, labiodentals are consonants articulated with the lower lip and the upper teeth. The labiodental consonants identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet are:
Notes:
- [ɱ] is an allophone of /m/ that occurs before /v/ and /f/.
- The stops (the plosives and the nasal ɱ) are not confirmed to exist as separate phonemes in any language.
The plosives are sometimes written as ȹ ȸ (qp and db monograms). Some languages, such as XiNkuna Tsonga, have true labiodental affricates, [p̪f] and [b̪v] (that is, [ȹf] and [ȸv]), as opposed to the bilabial-labiodental affricate [pf] of German.
See also
| Consonants (List, table) |
See also: IPA, Vowels |
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