Voiceless labiodental fricative

The voiceless labiodental fricative is a type of consonant. The letter for this sound in the International Phonetic Alphabet is ⟨⟩. The X-SAMPA symbol for this sound is ⟨f⟩. The English language has this sound, and it is the sound represented by 'f' in fear and face.

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 Examples 
 Language  Word  IPA  Meaning  Abkhaz  /fy   'lightning'  Adyghe  /tfy   'five'  Albanian      'cheek'  Arabic  Modern Standard  /th'arf   'envelope' Armenian  Eastern  /futbol   'football' Assyrian  ܦܬܐ pata    'face'  Assamese  /borof   'snow/ice'  Azeri  tüfəng    'ɡun'  Basque      'thin'  Bengali  /ful   'flower'  Catalan      'strong' Chechen   /     'fax'  Chinese  Cantonese   /     'to fly'  Mandarin   (traditional) / 飞(simplified) /    Coptic  /ftoow   'four'  Czech      'to blow'  Dutch      'bike'  English  All dialects  fill    'fill'  Cockney  think    'think'  Many British urban dialectsSome younger New Zealanders Broad South African Indian South African fair  'fair' Esperanto     'fire'  Ewe      'he spit off'  French      'fabulous'  Galician      German      'bland'  Goemai  f'at' [fat] 'to blow'  Greek      Gujarati   /     'fruit' Hebrew  /sofer   'writer'  Hindustani   / /saaf   'clean' Hungarian      'he/she pays attention'  Indonesian    'dawn'  Italian      'ghost' Kabardian  /fyz   'woman' Kabyle      'hand'  Khmer   /     'coffee'  Macedonian  /fonetika   'phonetics'  Māori      'genealogy' Malay      'ferry'  Maltese      'rabbit'  Norwegian      'filter'  Persian  /fekr   'thought'  Polish      'fur'  Portuguese      'speech'  Punjabi  ਫ਼ੌਜੀ/faujī   'soldier'  RomanianDEX Online :     'fire' Russian  /orfografiya   'orthography'  Serbo-Croatian   /     'phase' Slovak      'to blow' Somali      'wart'  Spanish      'ghost'  Swahili      'to die' Swedish      'fish'  Thai  /fon   'rain'  Turkish      'pure'  Ukrainian  /fastiv   'Fastiv'  Vietnamese      'firecracker'  Welsh      'stick' West Frisian      'full'  Yi   /     'roast'  Zapotec  Tilquiapan  cafe   'coffee' 

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Category:Consonants