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Alabiodental ejective fricative is a type ofconsonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in theInternational Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨fʼ⟩.

Features of a labiodental ejective fricative:

• Itsmanner of articulation isfricative, which means it is produced by constricting air flow through a narrow channel at the place of articulation, causingturbulence.
• Itsplace of articulation islabiodental, which means it is articulated with the lowerlip and the upperteeth.
• Itsphonation is un-voiced, which means it is produced without vibrations of the vocal cords.
• It is anoral consonant, which means that air is not allowed to escape through the nose.
• Because the sound is not produced with airflow over the tongue, thecentral–lateral dichotomy does not apply.
• Theairstream mechanism isejective (glottalic egressive), which means the air is forced out by pumping theglottis upward.

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• Colarusso, John. 1992.A Grammar of the Kabardian Language. University of Calgary Press.

• List of languages with[fʼ] onPHOIBLE

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