Voiced labiodental fricative

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Voiced labiodental fricative
v
IPA number129
Encoding
Entity (decimal)v
Unicode (hex)U+0076
X-SAMPAv
Kirshenbaumv
Sound

 

The voiced labiodental fricative is a type of consonant. The letter for this sound in the International Phonetic Alphabet is ⟨v⟩. The X-SAMPA symbol for this sound is ⟨v⟩. The English language has this sound, and it is the sound represented by 'v' in very and division.

See also in retroflex

counterpart

Features[change | change source]

Examples[change | change source]

Language Word IPA Meaning
Abkhaz европа [evˈropʼa] 'Europe'
Afrikaans wees [vɪəs] 'to be'
Albanian valixhe [vaˈlidʒɛ] 'case'
Arabic Algerian[1] كاڥي [kavi] 'ataxy'
Hejazi ڤيروس [vajˈruːs] 'virus'
Siirt[1] ذهب [vaˈhab] 'gold'
Armenian Eastern[2] վեց audio speaker icon[vɛtsʰ]  'six'
Assyrian ܟܬܒ̣ܐ ctava [ctaːva] 'book'
Bai Dali ? [ŋv˩˧] 'fish'
Bulgarian вода [voda] 'water'
Catalan Alguerese[3] vell [ˈveʎ] 'old'
Balearic[4] [3]
Southern Catalonia[5]
Valencian[5][3]
Chechen вашa / vaṣa [vaʃa] 'brother'
Chinese Wu [vɛ] 'cooked rice'
Sichuanese [v] 'five'
Czech voda [ˈvodä] 'water'
Danish Standard[6] véd [ve̝ːˀð̠˕ˠ] 'know(s)'
Dutch All dialects wraak [vraːk] 'revenge'
Most dialects vreemd [vreːmt] 'strange'
Standard[7]
English All dialects valve [væɫv] 'valve'
African American[8] breathe [bɹiːv] 'breathe'
Cockney[9] [bɹəi̯v]
Esperanto vundo [ˈvundo] 'wound'
Ewe[10] evlo [évló] 'he is evil'
Faroese[11] veður [ˈveːʋuɹ] 'speech'
French[12] valve [valv] 'valve'
Georgian[13] იწრო [ˈvitsʼɾo] 'narrow'
German Wächter [ˈvɛçtɐ] 'guard'
Greek βερνίκι verníki [ve̞rˈnici] 'varnish'
Hebrew גב [ɡav] 'back'
Hindi[14] व्र [vrət̪] 'fast'
Hungarian veszély [vɛseːj] 'danger'
Irish bhaile [vaːlə] 'home'
Italian[15] avare [aˈvare] 'miserly' (f. pl.)
Judaeo-Spanish mueve [ˈmwɛvɛ] 'nine'
Kabardian вагъуэ audio speaker icon[vaːʁʷa]  'star'
Macedonian вода [vɔda] 'water'
Maltese iva [iva] 'yes'
Norwegian Urban East[16] venn [ve̞nː] 'friend'
Occitan Auvergnat vol [vɔl] 'flight'
Limousin
Provençal
Persian Western ورزش [varzeʃ] 'sport'
Polish[17] wór audio speaker icon[vur]  'bag'
Portuguese[18] vila [ˈvilɐ] 'town'
Romanian val [väl] 'wave'
Russian[19][20] волосы [ˈvʷo̞ɫ̪əs̪ɨ̞] 'hair'
Serbo-Croatian voda [vɔ'da] 'water'
Slovak[21] vzrast [vzräst] 'height'
Slovene[22] filozof 'philosopher'
Spanish[23] afgano [ävˈɣ̞äno̞] 'Afghan'
Swedish vägg [ˈvɛɡː] 'wall'
Turkish[24] vade [väːˈd̪ɛ] 'due date'
Tyap vak [vag] 'road'
Urdu ورزش [vəɾzɪʃ] ‘exercise’
Vietnamese[25] và [vaː˨˩] 'and'
West Frisian weevje [ˈʋeɪ̯vjə] 'to weave'
Welsh fi [vi] 'I'
Yi /vu [vu˧] 'intestines'

Notes[change | change source]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Watson (2002:15)
  2. Dum-Tragut (2009:18)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 "La /v/ labiodental" (PDF). IEC. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
  4. Carbonell & Llisterri (1992:53)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Wheeler (2002:13)
  6. Basbøll (2005:62)
  7. Gussenhoven (1992:45)
  8. McWhorter (2001), pp. 148.
  9. Wells (1982), p. 328.
  10. Ladefoged (2005:156)
  11. Árnason (2011:115)
  12. Fougeron & Smith (1993:73)
  13. Shosted & Chikovani (2006:255)
  14. Janet Pierrehumbert; Rami Nair (1996), Implications of Hindi Prosodic Structure (Current Trends in Phonology: Models and Methods) (PDF), European Studies Research Institute, University of Salford Press, 1996, ISBN 978-1-901471-02-1, archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-13, retrieved 2022-02-16
  15. Rogers & d'Arcangeli (2004:117)
  16. Kristoffersen (2000:74)
  17. Jassem (2003:103)
  18. Cruz-Ferreira (1995:91)
  19. Padgett (2003:42)
  20. Yanushevskaya & Bunčić (2015:223)
  21. Hanulíková & Hamann (2010:374)
  22. Herrity (2000:16)
  23. http://www.uclm.es/profesorado/nmoreno/compren/material/2006apuntes_fonetica.pdf Archived 2012-03-07 at the Wayback Machine; http://plaza.ufl.edu/lmassery/Consonantes%20oclusivasreviewlaurie.doc
  24. Göksel & Kerslake (2005:6))
  25. Thompson (1959:458–461)

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