Voiceless bilabial fricative | |||
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ɸ | |||
IPA Number | 126 | ||
Audio sample | |||
Encoding | |||
Entity (decimal) | ɸ | ||
Unicode (hex) | U+0278 | ||
X-SAMPA | p\ | ||
Braille | |||
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The voiceless bilabial fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ɸ⟩, a Latinised form of the Greek letter Phi.
Features of the voiceless bilabial fricative:
Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
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Ainu[ citation needed] | フチ | [ɸu̜tʃi] | 'grandmother' | ||
Angor[ citation needed] | fi | [ɸi] | 'body' | ||
Bengali | Eastern dialects | ফল | [ɸɔl] | 'fruit' | Allophone of / f/ in some eastern dialects; regular allophone of /pʰ/ in western dialects |
English | Scouse | [ example needed] | Allophone of /pʰ/. See British English phonology [1] | ||
Southern England (some accents) |
thought | [ˈɸɔːt] | Conflation of /f/ and /θ/ (see th-fronting) | ||
fought | |||||
Ewe [2] | éƒá | [éɸá] | 'he polished' | Contrasts with /f/ | |
Italian | Tuscan [3] | i capitani | [iˌhäɸiˈθäːni] | 'the captains' | Intervocalic allophone of / p/. [3] See Italian phonology and Tuscan gorgia. |
Itelmen | чуфчуф | [tʃuɸtʃuɸ] | 'rain' | ||
Japanese [4] | 腐敗 / fuhai | [ɸɯhai] | 'decay' | Allophone of / h/ before /ɯ/. See Japanese phonology | |
Kaingang | fy | [ɸɨ] | 'seed' | ||
Korean | 후두개 / hudugae | [ɸʷudugɛ] | ' epiglottis' | Allophone of /h/ before /u/ and /w/. See Korean phonology | |
Kwama[ citation needed] | [kòːɸɛ́] | 'basket' | |||
Māori | whakapapa | [ɸakapapa] | 'genealogy' | Now more commonly /f/ due to the influence of English. See Māori phonology. | |
Nepali | वाफ | [bäɸ] | 'vapour' | Allophone of /pʰ/. See Nepali phonology | |
Odoodee[ citation needed] | pagai | [ɸɑɡɑi] | 'coconut' | ||
Okinawan | fifaci | [ɸiɸatɕi] | 'type of spice' | ||
Spanish | Some dialects [5] [6] | fuera | [ˈɸwe̞ɾa̠] | 'outside' | Non-standard variant of /f/. See Spanish phonology |
Standard European [7] | pub | [ˈpa̠ɸ̞] | 'pub' | An approximant; allophone of /b/ before a pause. [7] | |
North-Central Peninsular [8] | abdicar | [a̠ɸðiˈka̠ɾ] | 'abdicate' | Allophone of /b/ in the coda. In this dialect, the unvoiced coda obstruents - /p, t, k/ - are realized as fricatives only if they precede a voiced consonant; otherwise, they emerge as stops. | |
Southern Peninsular [9] | los vuestros | [lɔh ˈɸːwɛhtːɾɔh] | 'yours' | It varies with [βː] in some accents. Allophone of /b/ after /s/. | |
Shompen [10] | [koɸeoi] | 'bench' | |||
Sylheti | ꠙꠥꠀ | [ɸua] | 'boy' | ||
Tahitian | ʻōfī | [ʔoːɸiː] | 'snake' | Allophone of /f/ | |
Turkish | Some speakers [11] | ufuk | [uˈɸʊk] | 'horizon' | Allophone of /f/ before rounded vowels and, to a lesser extent, word-finally after rounded vowels. [11] See Turkish phonology |
Turkmen | fabrik | [ɸabrik] | 'factory' | ||
Yalë | dife | [diɸe] | 'village' |