Labiodental consonant


Labiodental consonant - Definition

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/.

See also