Voiced labiodental approximant
Consonantal sound represented by ⟨ʋ⟩ in IPA / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The voiced labiodental approximant is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. It is something between an English /w/ and /v/, pronounced with the teeth and lips held in the position used to articulate the letter V. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ʋ⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is P
or v\
. With an advanced diacritic, ⟨ʋ̟⟩, this letter also indicates a bilabial approximant, though the diacritic is frequently omitted because no contrast is likely.[1][2][failed verification]
Voiced labiodental approximant | |||
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ʋ | |||
IPA Number | 150 | ||
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Encoding | |||
Entity (decimal) | ʋ | ||
Unicode (hex) | U+028B | ||
X-SAMPA | P or v\ | ||
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The labiodental approximant is the typical realization of /v/ in the Indian South African variety of English. As the voiceless /f/ is also realized as an approximant ([ʋ̥]), it is also an example of a language contrasting voiceless and voiced labiodental approximants.[3]