Voiceless bilabial fricative Totally Explained

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The voiceless bilabial fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ɸ, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is p.

Features

Features of the voiceless bilabial fricative:

Its manner of articulation is fricative, which means it's 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's articulated with both lips.
Its phonation type is voiceless, which means it's produced without vibrations of the vocal cords.
It is an oral consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth.
It is a central consonant, which means it's produced by allowing the airstream to flow over the middle of the tongue, rather than the sides.
The airstream mechanism is pulmonic egressive, which means it's articulated by pushing air out of the lungs and through the vocal tract, rather than from the glottis or the mouth.

Occurrence

Language		Word	IPA	Meaning	Notes
Ainu		フチ	[ɸu̜tʃi]	'grandmother'
Angor		fi	[ɸi]	'body'
Ewe		éƒá	[éɸá]	'he polished'
Itelmen		чуфчуф	[tʃuɸtʃuɸ]	'rain'
Japanese		腐敗/fuhai	[ɸɯhai]	'decay'	Allophone of /h/ before /ɯ/. See Japanese phonology
Kaingang		[ɸɨ]		'seed'
Kalupaya		[ɸɨ]		'seed'
Kwama		[kòːɸɛ́]		'basket'
Mao		[ʔɑ̄ˈɸɑ́ŋ]		'empty'
Māori		whakapapa	[ɸakapapa]	'genealogy'
Odoodee		pagai	[ɸɑgɑi]	'coconut'
Spanish	Andalusian	los viejos	[lɔɸjɛhɔ]	'the old ones'	Allophone of /b/. See Spanish phonology
Turkmen		fabrik	[ɸabrik]	'factory'

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