Deaf labiodental fricative consonant
The deaf labiodental fricative consonant is a very frequent consonant sound in many languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet is. This symbol represents the Latin letter F lower-case.
In certain languages, as the Slavic Languages (one then speaks about consonant wet ), it can be palatalized.
Characteristics
Here characteristics of the deaf labiodental fricative consonant:- Its mode of articulation is fricative, which means that it is produced by contracting the air through a narrow gauge railway at the joint, causing turbulence.
- Its joint is labiodental, which means that it is articulated with the lower lip and the teeth of the upper jaw.
- Its phonation is deaf, which means that it is produced without the vibration of the vocal cords.
- It is a oral Consonne, which means that the air does not escape that by the mouth.
- It is a central Consonne, which means that it is produced by letting the air pass above the medium of the language, rather than by the sides.
- Its mechanism of draft is égressif pulmonary, which means that it is articulated by pushing the air by the lungs and through the channel vocatoire, rather than by the glottis or the mouth.
In French
French has it, it can be is written F or pH in the words with Greek root.
Other languages
The old Greek did not pronounce pH (φ) with the labiodental fricative consonant, but rather by a [p] aspired () or one. One finds to it only in the modern Greek .
See too
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