Voiced labiodental beaten consonant

The voiced labiodental beaten consonant is a consonant sound rather not very frequent in the spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet is flap (IPA) .png|16px|Beaten labiodental voiced] ] . This symbol represents a v whose pole of right-hand side finishes in the shape of a hook (, the hook of without its pole).

Note : as the letter v with hook in top on the right exists yet in Unicode nor no standard bill of character current, it will be represented here (while waiting) while making follow the letter v of a modifying letter circumflex accent (U+02C6), (that does not enter in conflict with the diacritic circumflex accent used to note the tone going down) ;

one obtains the graphic approximation then suivante : .

Characteristics

Here characteristics of the voiced labiodental beaten consonant:

Its mode of articulation is beaten, which means that it is produced by briefly contracting the muscles of a joint, on the other.
Its joint is labiodental, which means that it is articulated with the lower lip and the teeth of the upper jaw.
Its phonation is voiced, which means that the vocal cords vibrate at the time of the articulation.
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 does not have it. One can obtain a rather good approximation while pronouncing. English will pronounce rather who approaches this phoneme better.

In the other languages

This type of its is used like consonant Phonème by some Langue S of the Africa (Langues adamawa-ubangi).

See too

Internal bonds

External bonds

has Crosslinguistic Lexicon off the Labial Flap (video has & sound files)
SIL Linguist Successfully Proposes New Phonetic Symbol
Kenneth S. Olson' S research website (has information one the labiodental flap)

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