✨Creating an account only takes 20 seconds, and doesn’t require any personal info.
If you’ve got one already, please log in.🤝
Voiced labiodental fricative [v]
From Teflpedia
The voiced labiodental fricative [v] is a consonant phone.
Features[edit | edit source]
The voiced labiodental fricative has the following features:
- Its manner of articulation is a fricative, which means that the airflow is partially obstructed, creating audible friction.
- Its place of articulation is labiodental, which means that the sound is produced by the lower lip coming into contact with the upper teeth.
- It’s a voiced consonant, which means that the vocal cords vibrate during the articulation of the sound.
Classification[edit | edit source]
It’s classified as a labiodental fricative, and has a voiceless counterpart, the voiceless labiodental fricative [f].
Representation[edit | edit source]
It has the IPA symbol lowercase V, i.e. ⟨v⟩, and the IPA number 129.
English[edit | edit source]
In English, this is the standard pronunciation of the V phoneme /v/.
Click here for pronunciation (file info)
