Labiodental ejective fricative

The labiodental ejective fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is .

Labiodental ejective fricative
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X-SAMPAf_>

Features

Features of the labiodental ejective fricative:

Occurrence

LanguageWordIPAMeaningNotes
Abkhazапа[afʼa]'thin'Only found in this word, which is pronounced as [afʼa] only by some speakers, pronounced [apʼa] by the majority. [1]
Highland Oaxaca Chontal ɫof'aneh [ɬofʼaneʔ] 'corn cob'
Kabardianфӏыцӏэ[fʼət͡sʼa]'black'Corresponds to [ʃʷʼ] in Adyghe.[2]
Yapese[3]f'aang[fʼaːŋ]'type of eel'

Notes

  1. p257, Hewitt, B. G. 1989. Abkhaz. Croom Helm Descriptive Grammars.
  2. Colarusso, John. 1992. A Grammar of the Kabardian Language.
  3. p32, Ballantyne, Keira Gebbie. 2005. Textual Structure and Discourse Prominence in Yapese Narrative. Doctoral dissertation, University of Hawai'i.

See also

References

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


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