Deaf labiovelar fricative Consonant

The deaf labiovelar fricative consonant is a consonant sound used in certain spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet is.

Fricative the doubling articulated are very difficult to pronounce, and there is no confirmation of their existence in an unspecified language. The consonant is generally qualified of “fricative” for historical reasons, but when it exists (as in English), it is in fact a consonant spirante labiovelar deaf person , equivalent to .

Characteristics

Here characteristics of the fricative consonant (spirante) labiovelar deaf person:

Its mode of articulation is spirant, which means that it is produced by moderately contracting the phonatory bodies at the joint, hardly causing a turbulence.
Its mode of articulation is labiovelar, which means that it has two joints, bilabial on the one hand, i.e. the two round lips, and velar on the other hand, the posterior part of the language operating a constriction on the level of the veil of the palate.
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.

Languages

One finds of it an example in certain English dialects which make a distinction between the words whine (to cry) and wine (wine): it is the sound noted by the two letters “wh”.

Deaf labiovelar fricative Consonant

Characteristics

Languages

See also