Labiodental ejective fricative - Labiodental ejective fricative

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The labiodental ejective fricative is a type of consonantal sound, reported in the Kabardian language.^[1] The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨fʼ⟩.

Features

Features of the labiodental ejective fricative:

• Its manner of articulation is fricative, which means it is produced by constricting air flow through a narrow channel at the place of articulation, causing turbulence.
• Its place of articulation is labiodental, which means it is articulated with the lower lip and the upper teeth.
• Its phonation is voiceless, which means it is produced without vibrations of the vocal cords.
• It is an oral consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth only.
• The airstream mechanism is ejective (glottalic egressive), which means the air is forced out by pumping the glottis upward.

Occurrence

Language		Word	IPA	Meaning	Notes
Abkhaz		апа	[afʼa]	'thin'	Only found in this word, which is pronounced as [afʼa] only by some speakers, pronounced [apʼa] by the majority [2]
Kabardian		фӏыцӏэ	[fʼət͡sʼa] (help·info)	'black'	Corresponds to [ʃʷʼ] in Adyghe.
Yapese[3]		f'aang	[fʼaːŋ]	'type of eel'

Notes

See also

• List of phonetic topics

References

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

External links

• List of languages with [fʼ] on PHOIBLE

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