Labiodental consonant

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Places of articulation
Labial
Bilabial
Labial-velar
Labial-alveolar
Labiodental
Coronal
Linguolabial
Interdental
Dental
Alveolar
Apical
Laminal
Postalveolar
Alveolo-palatal
Retroflex
Dorsal
Palatal
Labial-palatal
Velar
Uvular
Uvular-epiglottal
Radical
Pharyngeal
Epiglotto-pharyngeal
Epiglottal
Glottal
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In phonetics, labiodentals are consonants articulated with the lower lip and the upper teeth. The labiodental consonants identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet are:

IPA Description Example
Language Orthography IPA Meaning
voiceless labiodental plosive
voiced labiodental plosive
labiodental nasal English symphony¹ ɱfəni] symphony
voiceless labiodental fricative English fan [fæn] fan
voiced labiodental fricative English van [væn] van
labiodental approximant Dutch wang ɑŋ] cheek

IPA	Description	Example
Language	Orthography	IPA	Meaning
	voiceless labiodental plosive
	voiced labiodental plosive
	labiodental nasal	English	symphony¹	ɱfəni]	symphony
	voiceless labiodental fricative	English	fan	[fæn]	fan
	voiced labiodental fricative	English	van	[væn]	van
	labiodental approximant	Dutch	wang	ɑŋ]	cheek

Notes:

[ɱ] is an allophone of /m/ that occurs before /v/ and /f/.
The stops (the plosives and the nasal ɱ) are not confirmed to exist as separate phonemes in any language.

The plosives are sometimes written as ȹ ȸ (qp and db monograms). Some languages, such as XiNkuna Tsonga, have true labiodental affricates, [p̪f] and [b̪v] (that is, [ȹf] and [ȸv]), as opposed to the bilabial-labiodental affricate [pf] of German.^{[[Citing sources citation needed]]}

Labiodental consonant

See also