Labiodental consonant - Definition and Overview

Places of articulation

Labial consonant

Labiodental consonant

Linguolabial 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
IPA	Description	Language	Orthography	IPA	Meaning
	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
p̪	voiceless labiodental plosive
b̪	voiced labiodental plosive

Notes:

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

Example Usage of Labiodental
	thropplenoggin: Ah, the poetry in Manners of Articulation: plosives, fricatives, sibilants, Labiodental FLAPS
	Trad_: RT @palomafranco: qué tipo de tweets dirían si alguien en bueno o no? jajajaja #encuestaPFLabiodental"
	chickelit: @gbibliophile My bad- I got my voiced and unvoiced Labiodental fricatives mixed up anyways.

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