The voiced labiodental fricative is a type of consonant . The letter for this sound in the International Phonetic Alphabet is ? v ?. The X-SAMPA symbol for this sound is ?v? . The English language has this sound, and it is the sound represented by 'v' in very and division .

See also in retroflex

counterpart

Features [ change | change source ]

• The airstream mechanism is pulmonic . This means that this sound is produced by pushing air solely with the lungs and diaphragm , as in most sounds.
• The phonation is voiced. This means that the vocal cords vibrate while the sound is being pronounced.
• The place of articulation (where the sound is produced) is labiodental . This means that this sound is produced with the lower lips and the upper teeth .
• The manner of articulation (how the sound is produced) is fricative . This means that this sound is produced by constricting air flow through a narrow channel at the place of articulation, to make turbulence .

Examples [ change | change source ]

Language		Word	IPA	Meaning
Abkhaz		е в ропа	[ev?rop?a]	'Europe'
Afrikaans		w ees	[v??s]	'to be'
Albanian		v alixhe	[va?lid??]	'case'
Arabic	Algerian [1]	???? ‎	[kavi]	'ataxy'
	Hejazi	?????	[vaj?ruːs]	'virus'
	Siirt [1]	???	[va?hab]	'gold'
Armenian	Eastern [2]	? ??	[v?ts?]   ( help · info )	'six'
Assyrian		????? cta v a	[ctaːva ]	'book'
Bai	Dali	?	[ŋv??]	'fish'
Bulgarian		в ода	[voda]	'water'
Catalan	Alguerese [3]	v ell	[?ve?]	'old'
	Balearic [4] [3]
	Southern Catalonia [5]
	Valencian [5] [3]
Chechen		в ашa / v a?a	[va?a]	'brother'
Chinese	Wu	?	[v?]	'cooked rice'
	Sichuanese	五	[v]	'five'
Czech		v oda	[?voda]	'water'
Danish	Standard [6]	v ed	[ve?ː?ð???]	'know(s)'
Dutch	All dialects	w raak	[vraːk]	'revenge'
	Most dialects	v reemd	[vreːmt]	'strange'
	Standard [7]
English	All dialects	v al v e	[væ?v]	'valve'
	African American [8]	brea th e	[b?iːv]	'breathe'
	Cockney [9]		[b??i?v]
Esperanto		v undo	[?vundo]	'wound'
Ewe [10]		e v lo	[evlo]	'he is evil'
Faroese [11]		v eður	[?veː?u?]	'speech'
French [12]		v al v e	[valv]	'valve'
Georgian [13]		? ????	[?vits??o]	'narrow'
German		W achter	[?v?ct?]	'guard'
Greek		β ερν?κι v erniki	[ve?r?nici]	'varnish'
Hebrew		? ?	[?av]	'back'
Hindi [14]		??? ?	[vr?t?]	'fast'
Hungarian		v eszely	[v?seːj]	'danger'
Irish		bh aile	[vaːl?]	'home'
Italian [15]		a v are	[a?vare]	'miserly' (f. pl.)
Judaeo-Spanish		mue v e	[?mw?v?]	'nine'
Kabardian		в агъуэ	[vaː??a]   ( help · info )	'star'
Macedonian		в ода	[v?da]	'water'
Maltese		i v a	[iva]	'yes'
Norwegian	Urban East [16]	v enn	[ve?nː]	'friend'
Occitan	Auvergnat	v ol	[v?l]	'flight'
	Limousin
	Provencal
Persian	Western	? ???	[varze?]	'sport'
Polish [17]		w or	[vur]   ( help · info )	'bag'
Portuguese [18]		v ila	[?vil?]	'town'
Romanian		v al	[val]	'wave'
Russian [19] [20]		в олосы	[?v?o????s???]	'hair'
Serbo-Croatian		v oda	[v?'da]	'water'
Slovak [21]		v zrast	[vzrast]	'height'
Slovene [22]		filozo f		'philosopher'
Spanish [23]		a f gano	[av???ano?]	'Afghan'
Swedish		v agg	[?v??ː]	'wall'
Turkish [24]		v ade	[vaː?d??]	'due date'
Tyap		v ak	[vag]	'road'
Urdu		? ???	[v??z??]	‘exercise’
Vietnamese [25]		v a	[vaː??]	'and'
West Frisian		wee v je	[??e??vj?]	'to weave'
Welsh		f i	[vi]	'I'
Yi		? / v u	[vu?]	'intestines'

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