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Voiceless labiodental fricative
Consonantal sound represented by ⟨f⟩ in IPA
Summary
Consonantal sound represented by ⟨f⟩ in IPA
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| ipa symbol | f |
| ipa number | 128 |
| decimal1 | 102 |
| x-sampa | f |
| braille | f |
| imagefile | IPA Unicode 0x0066.svg |
|x-sampa=f
A voiceless labiodental fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in a number of spoken languages. It is familiar to English-speakers as the "f" sound in "face". The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is .
Features
Features of a voiceless labiodental fricative:
Occurrence
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abkhaz | фы/fy | 'lightning' | See Abkhaz phonology | ||
| Adyghe | тфы/tfy | 'five' | Corresponds to [xʷ] in Kabardian and Proto-Circassian | ||
| Albanian | faqe | 'cheek' | |||
| Arabic | Modern Standard | ظرف/th'arf | 'envelope' | ||
| Armenian | Eastern | ֆուտբոլ/futbol | 'football' | ||
| Assyrian | ܦܬܐ pata | 'face' | Used mostly by Western speakers; corresponds to in most other dialects. | ||
| Assamese | বৰফ/borof | 'snow/ice' | |||
| Azeri | tüfəng | 'ɡun' | |||
| Basque | fin | 'thin' | |||
| Bengali | ফ়্যান | 'fan' | Allophone of . See Bengali phonology | ||
| Catalan | fort | 'strong' | See Catalan phonology | ||
| Chechen | факс / faks | 'fax' | Used only in loanwords. There is no /f/ in Chechen; /f/ was replaced by /p/ in loanwords that contained it before increased influence from the Russian language popularized the usage of /f/. | ||
| Chinese | Cantonese | 飛 / fēi | 'to fly' | ||
| Mandarin | 飛 (traditional) / 飞(simplified) / fēi | See Mandarin phonology | |||
| Coptic | ϥⲧⲟⲟⲩ/ftoow | 'four' | |||
| Czech | foukat | 'to blow' | See Czech phonology | ||
| Dutch | fiets | 'bike' | See Dutch phonology | ||
| English | All dialects | *fill* | 'fill' | ||
| Cockney | *think* | 'think' | Socially marked, with speakers exhibiting some free variation with (with which it corresponds to in other dialects). See th-fronting. | ||
| Many British urban dialects | |||||
| Some younger East Anglian English | |||||
| Some younger New Zealanders | |||||
| Broad South African | ''my'''th''''' | [mɨf] | 'myth' | Possible realization of /θ/, more common word-finally. See White SAE phonology. | |
| Esperanto | fajro | 'fire' | See Esperanto phonology | ||
| Ewe | eflen | 'he spit off' | |||
| French | fabuleuse | 'fabulous' | See French phonology | ||
| Galician | faísca | 'spark' | See Galician phonology | ||
| German | fade | 'bland' | See Standard German phonology | ||
| Goemai | f'at' | [fat] | 'to blow' | ||
| Greek | φύση / fysī | 'nature' | See Modern Greek phonology | ||
| Gujarati | ફળ / faļ | 'fruit' | See Gujarati phonology | ||
| Hebrew | סופר/sofer | 'writer' | See Modern Hebrew phonology | ||
| Hindustani | साफ़ / صاف/saaf | 'clean' | See Hindustani phonology | ||
| Hmong | / foob | 'to sue, to indict' | |||
| Hungarian | figyel | 'he/she pays attention' | See Hungarian phonology | ||
| Indonesian | sifat | 'characteristic' | |||
| Italian | fantasma | 'ghost' | See Italian phonology | ||
| Kabardian | фыз/fyz | 'woman' | Corresponds to [ʂʷ] in Adyghe and Proto-Circassian | ||
| Kabyle | afus | 'hand' | |||
| Kazakh | faqır / фақыр | 'poor' | |||
| Khmer | កាហ្វេ / km | 'coffee' | See Khmer phonology | ||
| Macedonian | фонетика/fonetika | 'phonetics' | See Macedonian phonology | ||
| Māori | whakapapa | 'genealogy' | Less commonly . See Māori phonology. | ||
| Malay | feri | 'ferry' | Only occurs in loanwords | ||
| Malayalam | ഫലം/falam | 'fruit, result' | Only occurs in loanwords in the standard version. ഫ is used to represent both /pʰ/ and /f/ but nowadays most people pronounce /pʰ/ as [f]. Occurs in native words in the Jeseri dialect. | ||
| Maltese | fenek | 'rabbit' | |||
| Norwegian | filter | 'filter' | See Norwegian phonology | ||
| Persian | فروخت/foruxt | 'he/she sold' | See Persian phonology | ||
| Polish | futro | 'fur' | See Polish phonology | ||
| Portuguese | fala | 'speech' | See Portuguese phonology | ||
| Punjabi | ਫ਼ੌਜੀ/faujī | 'soldier' | |||
| Romanian | foc | 'fire' | See Romanian phonology | ||
| Russian | орфография/orfografiya | 'orthography' | Contrasts with palatalized form. See Russian phonology | ||
| Scottish Gaelic | faisg | 'near, close' | Loosely articulated, can resemble . See Scottish Gaelic phonology | ||
| Serbo-Croatian | фаза / faza | 'phase' | See Serbo-Croatian phonology | ||
| Slovak | fúkať | 'to blow' | See Slovak phonology | ||
| Slovene | Standard | flavta | 'flute' | ||
| Some dialects | vsi | 'all (people)' | Allophone of before voiceless obstruents in dialects with → development. See Slovene phonology | ||
| Somali | feex | 'wart' | See Somali phonology | ||
| Spanish | fantasma | 'ghost' | See Spanish phonology | ||
| Swahili | kufa | 'to die' | |||
| Swedish | fisk | 'fish' | See Swedish phonology | ||
| Thai | ฝน/fon | 'rain' | |||
| Toda | ''nes̲o'''f''''' | 'moon' | |||
| Turkish | saf | 'pure' | See Turkish phonology | ||
| Ukrainian | Фастів/fastiv | 'Fastiv' | See Ukrainian phonology | ||
| Vietnamese | pháo | 'firecracker' | See Vietnamese phonology | ||
| Welsh | ffon | 'stick' | See Welsh phonology | ||
| West Frisian | fol | 'full' | See West Frisian phonology | ||
| Yi | ꃚ / fu | 'roast' | |||
| Zapotec | Tilquiapan | *cafe* | 'coffee' |
Voiceless labiodental approximant
A voiceless labiodental approximant is a similar sound with less frication. It is transcribed in IPA as .
Occurrence
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | Indian South African | *fair* | 'fair' |
Notes
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