Labiodental ejective fricative
The labiodental ejective fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨fʼ⟩.
| Labiodental ejective fricative | |
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Features
Features of the labiodental ejective 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 voiceless, which means it is produced without vibrations of the vocal cords.
- It is an oral consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth only.
- The airstream mechanism is ejective (glottalic egressive), which means the air is forced out by pumping the glottis upward.
Occurrence
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes |
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| Abkhaz | апа | [afʼa] | 'thin' | Only found in this word, which is pronounced as [afʼa] only by some speakers, pronounced [apʼa] by the majority. [1] |
| Highland Oaxaca Chontal | ɫof'aneh | [ɬofʼaneʔ] | 'corn cob' | |
| Kabardian | фӏыцӏэ |  [fʼət͡sʼa] | 'black' | Corresponds to [ʃʷʼ] in Adyghe.[2] |
| Yapese[3] | f'aang | [fʼaːŋ] | 'type of eel' |
Notes
- p257, Hewitt, B. G. 1989. Abkhaz. Croom Helm Descriptive Grammars.
- Colarusso, John. 1992. A Grammar of the Kabardian Language.
- p32, Ballantyne, Keira Gebbie. 2005. Textual Structure and Discourse Prominence in Yapese Narrative. Doctoral dissertation, University of Hawai'i.
See also
References
- Colarusso, John. 1992. A Grammar of the Kabardian Language. University of Calgary Press.
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