Voiceless bilabial fricative

A voiceless bilabial fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is Template:Angbr IPA, a Latinised form of the Greek letter Phi.

Features

Features of a voiceless bilabial fricative:

Occurrence

Language		Word	IPA	Meaning	Notes
AinuTemplate:Citation needed		Template:Lang	Template:IPA	'grandmother'	Allophone of Template:IPA before Template:IPA
AngorTemplate:Citation needed		Template:Lang	Template:IPA	'body'
Bengali	Eastern dialects	Template:Lang	Template:IPA	'fruit'	Allophone of Template:IPAslink in some eastern dialects; regular allophone of Template:IPA in western dialects
Damin		Template:Lang	Template:IPA	'boomerang'	May vary with prestopped Template:IPA
English	Scouse	Template:Example needed			Allophone of Template:IPA. See British English phonology<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Ewe<ref>Template:Harvcoltxt</ref>		Template:Lang	Template:IPA	'he polished'	Contrasts with Template:IPA
Italian	Tuscan<ref name="hall">Template:Harvcoltxt</ref>	Template:Lang	Template:IPA	'the captains'	Postvocalic allophone of Template:IPAslink.<ref name="hall"/> See Italian phonology and Tuscan gorgia.
Itelmen		Template:Lang	Template:IPA	'rain'
Japanese<ref>Template:Harvcoltxt</ref>		Template:Lang / Template:Lang	Template:IPA	'decay'	Allophone of Template:IPAslink before Template:IPA. See Japanese phonology
Kaingang		Template:Lang	Template:IPA	'seed'
Korean		Template:Lang / Template:Lang	Template:IPA	'epiglottis'	Allophone of Template:IPA before Template:IPA and Template:IPA. See Korean phonology
KwamaTemplate:Citation needed		Template:IPA		'basket'
Māori		Template:Lang	Template:IPA	'genealogy'	Now more commonly /f/ due to the influence of English. See Māori phonology.
Nepali		Template:Lang	Template:IPA	'vapour'	Allophone of /pʰ/. See Nepali phonology
OdoodeeTemplate:Citation needed		Template:Lang	Template:IPA	'coconut'
Okinawan		Template:Lang	Template:IPA	'type of spice'
Spanish	Some dialects <ref>Template:Harvcoltxt</ref><ref>Template:Harvcoltxt</ref>	Template:Lang	Template:IPA	'outside'	Non-standard variant of Template:IPA. See Spanish phonology
	North-Central Peninsular<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	Template:Lang	Template:IPA	'abdicate'	Allophone of Template:IPA in the coda. In this dialect, the unvoiced coda obstruents - Template:IPA - are realized as fricatives only if they precede a voiced consonant; otherwise, they emerge as stops.
	Southern Peninsular<ref>Template:Harvcoltxt</ref>	Template:Lang	Template:IPA	'yours'	It varies with Template:IPA in some accents. Allophone of Template:IPA after Template:IPA.
Shompen<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>		kofeoi	Template:IPA	'bench'
Sylheti		Template:Lang	Template:IPA	'boy'
Tahitian		Template:Lang	Template:IPA	'snake'	Allophone of Template:IPA
Taruma<ref name="Serke22">Template:Cite thesis</ref>		Template:Lang	Template:IPA	'fire'
Turkish	Some speakers<ref name="gk6">Template:Harvcoltxt</ref>	Template:Lang	Template:IPA	'horizon'	Allophone of Template:IPA before rounded vowels and, to a lesser extent, word-finally after rounded vowels.<ref name="gk6"/> See Turkish phonology
Turkmen		Template:Lang	Template:IPA	'factory'
Yalë		Template:Lang	Template:IPA	'village'

See also

• Index of phonetics articles

References

Sources

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External links

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