Bilabial ejective fricative
Consonantal sound
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A bilabial ejective fricative is a rare type of consonantal sound. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ɸʼ⟩.
| Bilabial ejective fricative | |
|---|---|
| ɸʼ | |
| IPA number | 126 + 401 |
| Audio sample | |
| Encoding | |
| Entity (decimal) | ɸʼ |
| Unicode (hex) | U+0278 U+02BC |
| X-SAMPA | p\_> |
Features
Features of a bilabial ejective fricative:
- Its manner of articulation is fricative, which means it is produced by constricting air flow through a narrow channel at the place of articulation, causing turbulence.
- Its place of articulation is bilabial, which means it is articulated with both lips.
- Its phonation is voiceless, which means it is produced without vibrations of the vocal cords.
- It is an oral consonant, which means that air is not allowed to escape through the nose.
- Because the sound is not produced with airflow over the tongue, the median–lateral dichotomy does not apply.
- The airstream mechanism is ejective (glottalic egressive), which means the air is forced out by pumping the glottis upward.
Occurrence
| Family | Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Language isolate | Yuchi[1] | f̓asę | [ɸʼasẽ] | 'good evening' | ||
