Voiceless labiodental fricative

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Voiceless labiodental fricative
f
IPA number128
Audio sample
File:Voiceless labio-dental fricative.ogg
Encoding
Entity (decimal)f
Unicode (hex)U+0066
X-SAMPAf
Braille⠋ (braille pattern dots-124)

A voiceless labiodental fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in a number of spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨f⟩.

A voiceless labiodental approximant is transcribed in IPA as ⟨ʋ̥⟩.

Features

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Features of a voiceless labiodental fricative:

Occurrence

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Language Word IPA Meaning Notes
Abkhaz фы/fy [fə] 'lightning' See Abkhaz phonology
Adyghe тфы/tfy <phonos file="Tfa.ogg">[tfə]</phonos> 'five' Corresponds to [xʷ] in Kabardian and Proto-Circassian
Albanian faqe [facɛ] 'cheek'
Arabic Modern Standard[1] ظرف/th'arf [ðˤɑrf] 'envelope' See Arabic phonology
Armenian Eastern[2] ֆուտբոլ/futbol <phonos file="futbol.ogg">[fut̪bol]</phonos> 'football'
Assyrian ܦܬܐ pata [fɔθɔ] 'face' Used mostly by Western speakers; corresponds to /p/ in most other dialects.
Assamese বৰ/borof [bɔɹɔf] 'snow/ice'
Azeri fəng [t̪y̆fæɲɟ] 'ɡun'
Basque fin [fin] 'thin'
Bengali ফু/ful [ful] 'flower' Allophone of /pʰ/. See Bengali phonology
Catalan[3] fort [ˈfɔɾt] 'strong' See Catalan phonology
Chechen факс / faks [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 / fēi <phonos file="Yue-fei1.ogg">[fei̯˥]</phonos> 'to fly' See Cantonese phonology
Mandarin (traditional) / (simplified) / fēi <phonos file="Zh-fēi.ogg">[feɪ̯˥]</phonos> See Mandarin phonology
Coptic ϥⲧⲟⲟⲩ/ftoow [ftow] 'four'
Czech foukat [ˈfoʊ̯kat] 'to blow' See Czech phonology
Dutch[4] fiets [fiːts] 'bike' See Dutch phonology
English All dialects fill Audio file "fill-pronunciation-audio.ogg" not found 'fill' See English phonology
Cockney[5] think [fɪŋk] 'think' Socially marked,[6] with speakers exhibiting some free variation with [θ] (with which it corresponds to in other dialects).[7] See th-fronting.
Many British urban dialects[8]
Some younger East Anglian English
Some younger New Zealanders[9][10]
Broad South African[11] myth [mɨf] 'myth' Possible realization of /θ/, more common word-finally. See White SAE phonology.
Indian South African[12] fair [ʋ̥eː] 'fair' Described as an approximant. Corresponds to /f/ in other accents.
Esperanto fajro [ˈfajɾo] 'fire' See Esperanto phonology
Ewe[13] eflen [éflé̃] 'he spit off'
French[14] fabuleuse [fäbyˈløːz̪] 'fabulous' See French phonology
Galician faísca [faˈiska] 'spark' See Galician phonology
German fade [ˈfaːdə] 'bland' See Standard German phonology
Goemai f'at' [fat] 'to blow'
Greek φύση / fysī [ˈfisi] 'nature' See Modern Greek phonology
Gujarati / faļ [fəɭ] 'fruit' See Gujarati phonology
Hebrew סופר/sofer [so̞fe̞ʁ] 'writer' See Modern Hebrew phonology
Hindustani साफ़ / صاف/saaf [sɑːf] 'clean' See Hindustani phonology
Hmong 𖬌𖬜𖬵 / foob [fõ˦] 'to sue, to indict'
Hungarian figyel [ˈfiɟɛl] 'he/she pays attention' See Hungarian phonology
Indonesian sifat [ˈsifät̪̚] 'characteristic'
Italian fantasma [fän̪ˈt̪äzmä] 'ghost' See Italian phonology
Kabardian фыз/fyz <phonos file="Фыз.ogg">[fəz]</phonos> 'woman' Corresponds to [ʂʷ] in Adyghe and Proto-Circassian
Kabyle afus [afus]
Kazakh faqır / фақыр [faqr] 'poor'
Khmer កាហ្វេ / kahvé [kaːfeː] 'coffee' See Khmer phonology
Macedonian фонетика/fonetika [fɔnetika] 'phonetics' See Macedonian phonology
Māori whakapapa [fakapapa] 'genealogy' Less commonly [ɸ]. See Māori phonology.
Malay feri [feri] 'ferry' Only occurs in loanwords
Malayalam ലം/falam [fɐlɐm] '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 [fenek] 'rabbit'
Norwegian filter [filtɛɾ] 'filter' See Norwegian phonology
Persian فروخت/foruxt [foɹu:xt] 'he/she sold' See Persian phonology
Polish[15] futro <phonos file="Pl-futro.ogg">[ˈfut̪rɔ]</phonos> 'fur' See Polish phonology
Portuguese[16] fala [ˈfalɐ] 'speech' See Portuguese phonology
Punjabi ਫ਼ੌਜੀ/faujī [fɔːd͡ʒi] 'soldier'
Romanian[17] foc [fo̞k] 'fire' See Romanian phonology
Russian[18] орфография/orfografiya [ɐrfɐˈɡrafʲɪjə] 'orthography' Contrasts with palatalized form. See Russian phonology
Scottish Gaelic[19] faisg [faʃkʲ] 'near, close' Loosely articulated, can resemble [ɸ]. See Scottish Gaelic phonology
Serbo-Croatian[20] фаза / faza [fǎːz̪ä] 'phase' See Serbo-Croatian phonology
Slovak fúkať [ˈfu̞ːkäc] 'to blow' See Slovak phonology
Slovene Standard flavta [ˈfláːu̯t̪à] 'flute' See Slovene phonology
Some dialects vsi [ˈfs̪î] 'all (people)' Allophone of /v/ before voiceless obstruents in dialects with /ʋ//v/ development. See Slovene phonology
Somali feex [fɛħ] 'wart' See Somali phonology
Spanish[21] fantasma [fã̠n̪ˈt̪a̠zma̠] 'ghost' See Spanish phonology
Swahili kufa [kufɑ] 'to die'
Swedish fisk [ˈfɪsk] 'fish' See Swedish phonology
Thai /fon [fon˩˩˦] 'rain'
Toda nes̲of [nes̲of] 'moon'
Turkish saf [ˈs̟ɑf] 'pure' See Turkish phonology
Ukrainian[22] Фастів/fastiv [ˈfɑsʲtʲiw] 'Fastiv' See Ukrainian phonology
Vietnamese[23] pháo [faːw˧ˀ˥] 'firecracker' See Vietnamese phonology
Welsh ffon [fɔn] 'stick' See Welsh phonology
West Frisian fol [foɫ] 'full' See West Frisian phonology
Yi / fu [fu˧] 'roast'
Zapotec Tilquiapan[24] cafe [kafɘ] 'coffee' Used primarily in loanwords from Spanish

See also

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Notes

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References

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