Voiced labiodental fricative
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| Voiced labiodental fricative | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| v | |||
| IPA number | 129 | ||
| Audio sample | |||
| Encoding | |||
| Entity (decimal) | v | ||
| Unicode (hex) | U+0076 | ||
| X-SAMPA | v | ||
| Braille |  | ||
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A voiced labiodental fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨v⟩.
The sound is similar to voiced alveolar fricative /z/ in that it is familiar to most European speakers[citation needed] but is a fairly uncommon sound cross-linguistically, occurring in approximately 21.1% of languages.[1] Moreover, most languages that have /z/ also have /v/ and similarly to /z/, the overwhelming majority of languages with are languages of Europe, Africa, or Western Asia, although the similar labiodental approximant /ʋ/ is also common in India. The presence of and absence of , is a very distinctive areal feature of European languages and those of adjacent areas of Siberia and Central Asia.[citation needed] Speakers of East Asian languages that lack this sound may pronounce it as (Korean and Japanese), or / (Cantonese and Mandarin), and thus be unable to distinguish between a number of English minimal pairs.[citation needed]
In certain languages, such as Danish,[2] Faroese,[3] Icelandic or Norwegian[4] the voiced labiodental fricative is in a free variation with the labiodental approximant.
Features
Features of a voiced labiodental fricative:
- Its manner of articulation is fricative, which means it is produced by constricting air flow through a narrow channel at the place of articulation, causing turbulence.
- Its place of articulation is labiodental, which means it is articulated with the lower lip and the upper teeth.
- Its phonation is voiced, which means the vocal cords vibrate during the articulation.
- It is an oral consonant, which means that air is not allowed to escape through the nose.
- Because the sound is not produced with airflow over the tongue, the median–lateral dichotomy does not apply.
- Its airstream mechanism is pulmonic, which means it is articulated by pushing air only with the intercostal muscles and abdominal muscles, as in most sounds.
Occurrence
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abkhaz | европа | 'Europe' | See Abkhaz phonology | ||
| Adyghe | жъвэ / ẑvă | ⓘ | 'oar' | ||
| Afrikaans | wees | 'to be' | See Afrikaans phonology | ||
| Albanian | valixhe | 'case' | |||
| Arabic | Algerian[5] | كاڥي | 'ataxy' | See Arabic phonology | |
| Hejazi | فيروس | 'virus' | Only used in loanwords, transcribed and pronounced as by many speakers. | ||
| Siirt[5] | ذهب | 'gold' | See Arabic phonology | ||
| Armenian | Eastern[6] | վեց | ⓘ | 'six' | |
| Assyrian | ܟܬܒ̣ܐ ctava | 'book' | Only in the Urmia dialects. [ʋ] is also predominantly used. Corresponds to [w] in the other varieties. | ||
| Bai | Dali | ? | 'fish' | ||
| Bulgarian | вода | 'water' | See Bulgarian phonology | ||
| Catalan | Alguerese[7] | vell | 'old' | See Catalan phonology | |
| Balearic[8][7] | |||||
| Southern Catalonia[9] | |||||
| Valencian[9][7] | |||||
| Chechen | вашa / vaşa | 'brother' | |||
| Chinese | Wu | 饭 | 'cooked rice' | ||
| Sichuanese | 五 | 'five' | Corresponds to /w/ in standard Mandarin. | ||
| Czech | voda | 'water' | See Czech phonology | ||
| Chichewa[10] | [example needed] | Has both plain and labialized.[11] | |||
| Danish | Standard[12] | véd | 'know(s)' | Most often an approximant [ʋ].[2] See Danish phonology | |
| Dutch | All dialects | wraak | 'revenge' | Allophone of /ʋ/ before /r/. See Dutch phonology | |
| Most dialects | vreemd | 'strange' | Often devoiced to [f] by speakers from the Netherlands. See Dutch phonology | ||
| Standard[13] | |||||
| English | All dialects | valve | ⓘ | 'valve' | See English phonology |
| African American[14] | breathe | 'breathe' | Does not occur word-initially. See th-fronting | ||
| Cockney[15] | |||||
| Esperanto | vundo | 'wound' | See Esperanto phonology | ||
| Ewe[16] | evlo | 'he is evil' | |||
| Faroese[3] | veður | 'speech' | Word-initial allophone of /v/, in free variation with an approximant [ʋ].[3] See Faroese phonology | ||
| French[17] | valve | 'valve' | See French phonology | ||
| Georgian[18] | ვიწრო | 'narrow' | |||
| German | Wächter | 'guard' | See Standard German phonology | ||
| Greek | βερνίκι verníki | 'varnish' | See Modern Greek phonology | ||
| Hebrew | גב | 'back' | See Modern Hebrew phonology | ||
| Hindi[19] | व्रत | 'fast' | See Hindustani phonology | ||
| Hmong | 𖬖𖬰𖬜 / vaj | 'king', 'vang clan last name' | |||
| Hungarian | veszély | 'danger' | See Hungarian phonology | ||
| Irish | bhaile | 'home' | See Irish phonology | ||
| Italian[20] | avare | 'miserly' (f. pl.) | See Italian phonology | ||
| Judaeo-Spanish | mueve | 'nine' | |||
| Kabardian | вагъуэ / vağue / ۋاغوە | ⓘ | 'star' | Corresponds to in Adyghe | |
| Macedonian | вода | 'water' | See Macedonian phonology | ||
| Malayalam | വിയർപ്പ് | 'sweat' | |||
| Maltese | iva | 'yes' | |||
| Norwegian | Urban East[4] | venn | 'friend' | Allophone of /ʋ/ before a pause and in emphatic speech.[4] See Norwegian phonology | |
| Occitan | Auvergnat | vol | 'flight' | See Occitan phonology | |
| Limousin | |||||
| Provençal | |||||
| Persian | Western | ورزش | 'sport' | See Persian phonology | |
| Polish[21] | wór | ⓘ | 'bag' | See Polish phonology | |
| Portuguese[22] | vila | 'town' | See Portuguese phonology | ||
| Romanian | val | 'wave' | See Romanian phonology | ||
| Russian[23][24] | волосы | 'hair' | Contrasts with palatalized form. May be a lenited fricative or an approximant [ʋ] instead.[24] See Russian phonology | ||
| Scottish Gaelic | a-bhos | 'over here' | Loosely articulated, can resemble [β]. See Scottish Gaelic phonology | ||
| Serbo-Croatian | voda | 'water' | See Serbo-Croatian phonology | ||
| Slovak[25] | vzrast | 'height' | Appears only in syllable onset before voiced obstruents; the usual realization of /v/ is an approximant [ʋ].[25] See Slovak phonology | ||
| Slovene[26] | Standard | filozof gre | 'philosopher goes' | Allophone of /f/ before voiced consonants.[26] See Slovene phonology | |
| Some dialects | voda | 'water' | Instead of /ʋ/. See Slovene phonology | ||
| Spanish[27][28] | afgano | 'Afghan' | Allophone of /f/ before voiced consonants. See Spanish phonology | ||
| Swedish | vägg | 'wall' | See Swedish phonology | ||
| Turkish[29] | vade | 'due date' | The main allophone of /v/; realized as bilabial in certain contexts.[29] See Turkish phonology | ||
| Tamil | வார்த்தை | 'word' | See Tamil phonology | ||
| Tyap | vak | 'road' | |||
| Umbundu[30] | [example needed] | Has both plain and nasalized.[30] | |||
| Urdu | ورزش | ‘exercise’ | See Hindustani phonology | ||
| Vietnamese[31] | và | 'and' | In southern dialects, is in free variation with . See Vietnamese phonology | ||
| West Frisian | weevje | 'to weave' | Never occurs in word-initial positions. See West Frisian phonology | ||
| Welsh | fi | 'I' | See Welsh phonology | ||
| Yi | ꃶ/vu | 'intestines' | |||
See also
Notes
- ^ "UPSID Segment Frequency". Retrieved 13 February 2023.
- ^ a b Basbøll (2005:66)
- ^ a b c Árnason (2011:115)
- ^ a b c Kristoffersen (2000:74)
- ^ a b Watson (2002:15)
- ^ Dum-Tragut (2009:18)
- ^ a b c "La /v/ labiodental" (PDF). IEC. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 July 2021. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
- ^ Carbonell & Llisterri (1992:53)
- ^ a b Wheeler (2005:13)
- ^ "PBase". pbase.phon.chass.ncsu.edu. Retrieved 2025-10-31.
- ^ "PBase". pbase.phon.chass.ncsu.edu. Retrieved 2025-10-31.
- ^ Basbøll (2005:62)
- ^ Gussenhoven (1992:45)
- ^ McWhorter (2001), pp. 148.
- ^ Wells (1982), p. 328.
- ^ Ladefoged (2005:156)
- ^ Fougeron & Smith (1993:73)
- ^ Shosted & Chikovani (2006:255)
- ^ Pierrehumbert, Janet; Nair, Rami (1996), Laks, Bernard (ed.), Implications of Hindi Prosodic Structure (Current Trends in Phonology: Models and Methods) (PDF), European Studies Research Institute, University of Salford Press, 1996, ISBN 978-1-901471-02-1, archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-13, retrieved 2010-10-19
- ^ Rogers & d'Arcangeli (2004:117)
- ^ Jassem (2003:103)
- ^ Cruz-Ferreira (1995:91)
- ^ Padgett (2003:42)
- ^ a b Yanushevskaya & Bunčić (2015:223)
- ^ a b Hanulíková & Hamann (2010:374)
- ^ a b Herrity (2000:16)
- ^ "Tema 2 Fonética y Fonología. La descripción de los sonidos" (PDF), uclm.es (in Spanish), archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-07
- ^ "Consonantes oclusivas", plaza.ufl.edu, retrieved 2024-07-20
- ^ a b Göksel & Kerslake (2005:6))
- ^ a b "Nasalization in Umbundu" (PDF). scispace.com. Retrieved 2025-10-31.
- ^ Thompson (1959:458–461)
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