| Voiceless labiodental fricative | |||
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| f | |||
| IPA number | 128 | ||
| Audio sample | |||
| Encoding | |||
| Entity(decimal) | f | ||
| Unicode(hex) | U+0066 | ||
| X-SAMPA | f | ||
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Avoiceless labiodental fricative is a type ofconsonantal sound used in a number ofspokenlanguages. The symbol in theInternational Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨f⟩.
Avoiceless labiodental approximant is transcribed in IPA as ⟨ʋ̥⟩.
Features of a voiceless labiodental fricative:
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abkhaz | фы/fy | [fə] | 'lightning' | SeeAbkhaz phonology | |
| Adyghe | тфы/tfy | [tfə]ⓘ | 'five' | Corresponds to [xʷ] in Kabardian and Proto-Circassian | |
| Albanian | faqe | [facɛ] | 'cheek' | ||
| Arabic | Modern Standard[1] | ظرف/th'arf | [ðˤɑrf] | 'envelope' | SeeArabic phonology |
| Armenian | Eastern[2] | ֆուտբոլ/futbol | [fut̪bol]ⓘ | 'football' | |
| Assyrian | ܦܬܐpata | [fɔθɔ] | 'face' | Used mostly byWestern speakers; corresponds to/p/ in most other dialects. | |
| Assamese | বৰফ/borof | [bɔɹɔf] | 'snow/ice' | ||
| Azeri | tüfəng | [t̪y̆fæɲɟ] | 'ɡun' | ||
| Basque | fin | [fin] | 'thin' | ||
| Bengali | ফুল/ful | [ful] | 'flower' | Allophone of/pʰ/. SeeBengali phonology | |
| Catalan[3] | fort | [ˈfɔɾt] | 'strong' | SeeCatalan phonology | |
| Chechen | факс /faks | [faks] | 'fax' | Used only in loanwords. There is no /f/ in Chechen; /f/ was replaced by /p/ in loanwords that contained it before increased influence from the Russian language popularized the usage of /f/. | |
| Chinese | Cantonese | 飛 /fēi | [fei̯˥]ⓘ | 'to fly' | SeeCantonese phonology |
| Mandarin | 飛 (traditional) /飞(simplified) /fēi | [feɪ̯˥]ⓘ | SeeMandarin phonology | ||
| Coptic | ϥⲧⲟⲟⲩ/ftoow | [ftow] | 'four' | ||
| Czech | foukat | [ˈfoʊ̯kat] | 'to blow' | SeeCzech phonology | |
| Dutch[4] | fiets | [fiːts] | 'bike' | SeeDutch phonology | |
| English | All dialects | fill | [fɪɫ]ⓘ | 'fill' | SeeEnglish phonology |
| Cockney[5] | think | [fɪŋk] | 'think' | Socially marked,[6] with speakers exhibiting somefree variation with[θ] (with which it corresponds to in other dialects).[7] Seeth-fronting. | |
| Many British urban dialects[8] | |||||
| Some youngerEast Anglian English | |||||
| Some youngerNew Zealanders[9][10] | |||||
| BroadSouth African[11] | myth | [mɨf] | 'myth' | Possible realization of /θ/, more common word-finally. SeeWhite SAE phonology. | |
| Indian South African[12] | fair | [ʋ̥eː] | 'fair' | Described as an approximant. Corresponds to/f/ in other accents. | |
| Esperanto | fajro | [ˈfajɾo] | 'fire' | SeeEsperanto phonology | |
| Ewe[13] | eflen | [éflé̃] | 'he spit off' | ||
| French[14] | fabuleuse | [fäbyˈløːz̪] | 'fabulous' | SeeFrench phonology | |
| Galician | faísca | [faˈiska] | 'spark' | SeeGalician phonology | |
| German | fade | [ˈfaːdə] | 'bland' | SeeStandard German phonology | |
| Goemai | f'at' | [fat] | 'to blow' | ||
| Greek | φύση /fysī | [ˈfisi] | 'nature' | SeeModern Greek phonology | |
| Gujarati | ફળ /faļ | [fəɭ] | 'fruit' | SeeGujarati phonology | |
| Hebrew | סופר/sofer | [so̞fe̞ʁ] | 'writer' | SeeModern Hebrew phonology | |
| Hindustani | साफ़ /صاف/saaf | [sɑːf] | 'clean' | SeeHindustani phonology | |
| Hmong | 𖬌𖬜𖬵 /foob | [fõ˦] | 'to sue, to indict' | ||
| Hungarian | figyel | [ˈfiɟɛl] | 'he/she pays attention' | SeeHungarian phonology | |
| Indonesian | fajar | [fadʒar] | 'dawn' | SeeIndonesian phonology | |
| Italian | fantasma | [fän̪ˈt̪äzmä] | 'ghost' | SeeItalian phonology | |
| Kabardian | фыз/fyz | [fəz]ⓘ | 'woman' | Corresponds to [ʂʷ] in Adyghe and Proto-Circassian | |
| Kabyle | afus | [afus] | |||
| Kazakh | faqır / фақыр | [faqr] | 'poor' | ||
| Khmer | កាហ្វេ /kahvé | [kaːfeː] | 'coffee' | SeeKhmer phonology | |
| Macedonian | фонетика/fonetika | [fɔnetika] | 'phonetics' | SeeMacedonian phonology | |
| Māori | whakapapa | [fakapapa] | 'genealogy' | Less commonly[ɸ]. SeeMāori phonology. | |
| Malay | feri | [feri] | 'ferry' | Only occurs in loanwords | |
| Malayalam | ഫലം/falam | [fɐlɐm] | 'fruit, result' | Only occurs in loanwords in the standard version. ഫ is used to represent both /pʰ/ and /f/ but nowadays most people pronounce /pʰ/ as [f]. Occurs in native words in theJeseri dialect. | |
| Maltese | fenek | [fenek] | 'rabbit' | ||
| Norwegian | filter | [filtɛɾ] | 'filter' | SeeNorwegian phonology | |
| Persian | فروخت/foruxt | [foɹu:xt] | 'he/she sold' | SeePersian phonology | |
| Polish[15] | futro | [ˈfut̪rɔ]ⓘ | 'fur' | SeePolish phonology | |
| Portuguese[16] | fala | [ˈfalɐ] | 'speech' | SeePortuguese phonology | |
| Punjabi | ਫ਼ੌਜੀ/faujī | [fɔːd͡ʒi] | 'soldier' | ||
| Romanian[17] | foc | [fo̞k] | 'fire' | SeeRomanian phonology | |
| Russian[18] | орфография/orfografiya | [ɐrfɐˈɡrafʲɪjə] | 'orthography' | Contrasts withpalatalized form. SeeRussian phonology | |
| Scottish Gaelic[19] | faisg | [faʃkʲ] | 'near, close' | Loosely articulated, can resemble[ɸ]. SeeScottish Gaelic phonology | |
| Serbo-Croatian[20] | фаза /faza | [fǎːz̪ä] | 'phase' | SeeSerbo-Croatian phonology | |
| Slovak | fúkať | [ˈfu̞ːkäc] | 'to blow' | SeeSlovak phonology | |
| Slovene | Standard | flavta | [ˈfláːu̯t̪à] | 'flute' | SeeSlovene phonology |
| Some dialects | vsi | [ˈfs̪î] | 'all (people)' | Allophone of/v/ before voiceless obstruents in dialects with/ʋ/ →/v/ development. SeeSlovene phonology | |
| Somali | feex | [fɛħ] | 'wart' | SeeSomali phonology | |
| Spanish[21] | fantasma | [fã̠n̪ˈt̪a̠zma̠] | 'ghost' | SeeSpanish phonology | |
| Swahili | kufa | [kufɑ] | 'to die' | ||
| Swedish | fisk | [ˈfɪsk] | 'fish' | SeeSwedish phonology | |
| Thai | ฝน/fon | [fon˩˩˦] | 'rain' | ||
| Toda | nes̲of | [nes̲of] | 'moon' | ||
| Turkish | saf | [ˈs̟ɑf] | 'pure' | SeeTurkish phonology | |
| Ukrainian[22] | Фастів/fastiv | [ˈfɑsʲtʲiw] | 'Fastiv' | SeeUkrainian phonology | |
| Vietnamese[23] | pháo | [faːw˧ˀ˥] | 'firecracker' | SeeVietnamese phonology | |
| Welsh | ffon | [fɔn] | 'stick' | SeeWelsh phonology | |
| West Frisian | fol | [foɫ] | 'full' | SeeWest Frisian phonology | |
| Yi | ꃚ /fu | [fu˧] | 'roast' | ||
| Zapotec | Tilquiapan[24] | cafe | [kafɘ] | 'coffee' | Used primarily in loanwords fromSpanish |
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