| Voiceless bilabial affricate | |
|---|---|
| pɸ | |
| Audio sample | |
Avoiceless bilabial affricate ([p͡ɸ] inIPA) is a rareaffricate consonant that is initiated as abilabial stop[p] and released as avoiceless bilabial fricative[ɸ]. It has not been reported to occurphonemically in any language.
Features of a voiceless bilabial affricate:
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dutch | Orsmaal-Gussenhoven dialect[1] | up | [ʊp͡ɸ] | 'up, onto' | Optional pre-pausal allophone of/p/.[1] |
| English | BroadCockney[2] | up | [ˈɐʔp͡ɸ] | 'up' | Allophone of/p/, occurs mainly word-finally.[3] SeeEnglish phonology |
| Received Pronunciation[4] | Rare allophone of/p/.[4] SeeEnglish phonology | ||||
| North Wales[5] | [ˈəp͡ɸ] | Word-initial and word-final allophone of/p/; in free variation with a strongly aspirated stop[pʰ].[5] SeeEnglish phonology | |||
| Port Talbot[6] | Allophone of /p/. In free variation with [pʰʰ].[6] | ||||
| Scouse[7] | [ˈʊp͡ɸ] | Possible syllable-initial and word-final allophone of/p/.[7] SeeEnglish phonology | |||
| German | Some speakers | tropfen | [ˈtʁ̥ɔp͡ɸn̩] | 'to drip' | Allophone of/p͡f/. SeeStandard German phonology |
| Ghomalaʼ | [example needed] | Allophone of/p/ before/h/.[8] | |||
| Kaingang[9] | fy | [ˈp͡ɸɤ] | 'seed' | Possible word-initial allophone of/ɸ/.[9] | |
| Northern Tiwa | Taos dialect | [ˌp͡ɸìˑˈwɛ̈̄ːnǣ] | 'daughter' | Allophone of/pʰ/, in free variation with[ph] and[ɸ]. SeeTaos phonology | |