Voiceless labiodental fricative

Voiceless labiodental fricative
Voiceless labiodental fricative
f
IPA number	128
Encoding
Entity (decimal)	f
Unicode (hex)	U+0066
X-SAMPA	f
Kirshenbaum	f
Sound
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The voiceless labiodental fricative is a type of consonant. The letter for this sound in the International Phonetic Alphabet is ⟨f⟩. The X-SAMPA symbol for this sound is ⟨f⟩. The English language has this sound, and it is the sound represented by 'f' in fear and face.

Features

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 voiceless. This means that this sound is produced without vibrations of the vocal cords. In some languages the vocal cords are actively separated, so it is always voiceless; in others the cords are lax, so that it may take on the voicing of adjacent sounds.
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

Language		Word	IPA	Meaning
Abkhaz		фы/fy	[fə]	'lightning'
Adyghe		тфы/tfy	[tfə] (help·info)	'five'
Albanian		faqe	[facɛ]	'cheek'
Arabic	Modern Standard^[1]	ظرف/th'arf	[ðˤɑrf]	'envelope'
Armenian	Eastern^[2]	ֆուտբոլ/futbol	[fut̪bol] (help·info)	'football'
Assyrian		ܦܬܐ pata	[fɔθɔ]	'face'
Assamese		বৰফ/borof	[bɔɹɔf]	'snow/ice'
Azeri		tüfəng	[t̪y̆fæɲɟ]	'ɡun'
Basque		fin	[fin]	'thin'
Bengali		ফুল/ful	[ful]	'flower'
Catalan^[3]		fort	[ˈfɔɾt]	'strong'
Chechen		факс / faks	[faks]	'fax'
Chinese	Cantonese	飛 / fēi	[fei̯˥]	'to fly'
Chinese	Mandarin	飛 (traditional) / 飞(simplified) / fēi	[feɪ̯˥]	'to fly'
Coptic		ϥⲧⲟⲟⲩ/ftoow	[ftow]	'four'
Czech		foukat	[ˈfoʊ̯kat]	'to blow'
Dutch^[4]		fiets	[fits]	'bike'
English	All dialects	fill	[fɪɫ]	'fill'
	Cockney^[5]	think	[fɪŋk]	'think'
	Many British urban dialects^[6]
	Some younger New Zealanders^[7]^[8]
	Broad South African^[9]
	Indian South African^[10]	fair	[ʋ̥eː]	'fair'
Esperanto		fajro	[ˈfajɾo]	'fire'
Ewe^[11]		eflen	[éflé̃]	'he spit off'
French^[12]		fabuleuse	[fäbyˈløːz̪]	'fabulous'
Galician		faísca	[faˈiska]
German		fade	[ˈfaːdə]	'bland'
Goemai		f'at'	[fat]	'to blow'
Greek		φύση / fysī	[ˈfisi]
Gujarati		ફળ / faļ	[fəɭ]	'fruit'
Hebrew		סופר/sofer	[so̞fe̞ʁ]	'writer'
Hindustani		साफ़ / صاف/saaf	[sɑːf]	'clean'
Hungarian		figyel	[ˈfiɟɛl]	'he/she pays attention'
Indonesian		fajar	[fadʒar]	'dawn'
Italian		fantasma	[fän̪ˈt̪äzmä]	'ghost'
Kabardian		фыз/fyz	[fəz]	'woman'
Kabyle		afus	[afus]	'hand'
Khmer		កាហ្វេ / kahvé	[kaːfeː]	'coffee'
Macedonian		фонетика/fonetika	[fɔnetika]	'phonetics'
Māori		whakapapa	[fakapapa]	'genealogy'
Malay		feri	[feri]	'ferry'
Maltese		fenek	[fenek]	'rabbit'
Norwegian		filter	[filtɛɾ]	'filter'
Persian		فکر/fekr	[fekr]	'thought'
Polish^[13]		futro	[ˈfut̪rɔ] (help·info)	'fur'
Portuguese^[14]		fala	[ˈfalɐ]	'speech'
Punjabi		ਫ਼ੌਜੀ/faujī	[fɔːd͡ʒi]	'soldier'
Romanian^[15]		foc	[fo̞k]	'fire'
Russian^[16]		орфография/orfografiya	[ɐrfɐˈɡrafʲɪjə]	'orthography'
Serbo-Croatian^[17]		фаза / faza	[fǎːz̪ä]	'phase'
Slovak		fúkať	[ˈfu̞ːkätɕ]	'to blow'
Somali		feex	[fɛħ]	'wart'
Spanish^[18]		fantasma	[fã̠n̪ˈt̪a̠zma̠]	'ghost'
Swahili		kufa	[kufɑ]	'to die'
Swedish		fisk	[ˈfɪsk]	'fish'
Thai		ฝน/fon	[fon˩˩˦]	'rain'
Turkish		saf	[säf]	'pure'
Ukrainian^[19]		Фастів/fastiv	[ˈfɑsʲtʲiw]	'Fastiv'
Vietnamese^[20]		pháo	[faːw˧ˀ˥]	'firecracker'
Welsh		ffon	[fɔn]	'stick'
West Frisian		fol	[foɫ]	'full'
Yi		ꃚ / fu	[fu˧]	'roast'
Zapotec	Tilquiapan^[21]	cafe	[kafɘ]	'coffee'

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Voiceless labiodental fricative

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