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labiodental consonant
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consonants articulated with the lower lip and the upper teeth
A labiodental consonant is a speech sound made by placing your lower lip against your upper teeth, like the "f" and "v" sounds in English. These consonants are found across many languages and are a basic category linguists use to describe and understand how humans produce different sounds when speaking.
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Vinony's link graph records 683 inbound references to labiodental consonant, and connects out to voiced alveolar lateral approximant, voiced alveolar nasal and voiceless alveolar fricative.
Vinony files it under Labiodental consonants and Place of articulation.
Vinony links it to 56 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- place of articulation
- Subclass of
- consonant
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- Category:Labiodental consonants
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Encyclopedic overview
In phonetics, labiodentals are consonants articulated with the lower lip and the upper teeth, such as [f] and [v].
Labiodental consonants in the IPA
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “labiodental consonant” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.