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Voiceless bilabial fricative

Consonantal sound represented by ⟨ɸ⟩ in IPA

Summary

Consonantal sound represented by ⟨ɸ⟩ in IPA

Field	Value
ipa symbol	ɸ
ipa number	126
decimal1	632
imagefile	IPA Unicode 0x0278.svg
x-sampa	p\
braille	46
braille2	124

|x-sampa=p\

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 , a Latinised form of the Greek letter Phi.

Features

Features of a voiceless bilabial fricative:

Occurrence

Language	Word	IPA	Meaning	Notes
Ainu	フチ		'grandmother'	Allophone of before
Angor	fi		'body'
	Bengali	Eastern dialects	ফল		'fruit'
Damin	fiwi		'boomerang'	May vary with prestopped
English	Scouse
Ewe	éƒá		'he polished'	Contrasts with
Italian	Tuscan	i capitani		'the captains'
Itelmen	чуфчуф		'rain'
Japanese	腐敗 / fuhai		'decay'	Allophone of before . See Japanese phonology
Kaingang	fy		'seed'
Korean	후두개 / hudugae		'epiglottis'	Allophone of before and . See Korean phonology
Kwama		'basket'
Māori	whakapapa		'genealogy'	Now more commonly /f/ due to the influence of English. See Māori phonology.
Nepali	बाफ		'vapour'	Allophone of /pʰ/. See Nepali phonology
Odoodee	pagai		'coconut'
Okinawan	fifaci		'type of spice'
Spanish	Some dialects	fuera		'outside'
North-Central Peninsular	abdicar		'abdicate'	Allophone of in the coda. In this dialect, the unvoiced coda obstruents - - are realized as fricatives only if they precede a voiced consonant; otherwise, they emerge as stops.
Southern Peninsular	los vuestros		'yours'	It varies with in some accents. Allophone of after .
Shompen	kofeoi		'bench'
Sylheti	ꠙꠥꠀ		'boy'
Tahitian	{{okina}}ōfī		'snake'	Allophone of
Taruma	fwa		'fire'
Turkish	Göksel	Kerslake	2005	p=6}}	ufuk	'horizon'
Turkmen	fabrik		'factory'
Yalë	dife		'village'

References

Sources

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References

Watson, Kevin. (2007). "Illustrations of the IPA: Liverpool English". Journal of the International Phonetic Association 37.
{{Harvcoltxt. Ladefoged. 2005
{{Harvcoltxt. Hall. 1944
{{Harvcoltxt. Okada. 1999
{{Harvcoltxt. Boyd-Bowman. 1953
{{Harvcoltxt. Cotton. Sharp. 1988
"Microsoft Word - codaobs-roa.do".
{{Harvcoltxt. Pérez. Aguilar. Jiménez. 1998
"The language of the Shom Pen: a language isolate in the Nicobar Islands". Mother Tongue.
Serke, Anna K.. (2022). "A description of Taruma phonology". Universitat Leiden.
{{Harvcoltxt. Göksel. Kerslake. 2005

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