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Labiodental consonant

Places of articulation
Labial consonant
Bilabial consonant
Labiodental consonant
Linguolabial consonant
Coronal consonant
Interdental consonant
Dental consonant
Retroflex consonant
Alveolar consonant
Postalveolar consonant
Alveolo-palatal consonant
Dorsal consonant
Palatal consonant
Labial-palatal consonant
Velar consonant
Labial-velar consonant
Uvular consonant
Pharyngeal consonant
Epiglottal consonant
Glottal consonant
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In phonetics, labiodentals are consonants articulated with the lower lips and the upper teeth, or viceversa. 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 [ˈsɪɱfəni] symphony
voiceless labiodental fricative English fan [fæn] fan
voiced labiodental fricative English van [væn] van
labiodental approximant Dutch wang [ʋɑŋ] cheek

Notes:

  1. /ɱ/ is not a separate phoneme in English, but an allophone of /m/ that occurs before /v/ and /f/.

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