consonantal sound From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The voiceless labiodental fricative is a type of consonant. The letter for this sound in the International Phonetic Alphabet is ⟨f⟩. The X-SAMPA symbol for this sound is ⟨f⟩. The English language has this sound, and it is the sound represented by 'f' in fear and face.
Voiceless labiodental fricative | |
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f | |
IPA Number | 128 |
Encoding | |
Entity (decimal) | f |
Unicode (hex) | U+0066 |
X-SAMPA | f |
Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | |
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Abkhaz | фы/fy | [fə] | 'lightning' | |
Adyghe | тфы/tfy | [tfə] (help·info) | 'five' | |
Albanian | faqe | [facɛ] | 'cheek' | |
Arabic | Modern Standard[1] | ظرف/th'arf | [ðˤɑrf] | 'envelope' |
Armenian | Eastern[2] | ֆուտբոլ/futbol | [fut̪bol] (help·info) | 'football' |
Assyrian | ܦܬܐ pata | [fɔθɔ] | 'face' | |
Assamese | বৰফ/borof | [bɔɹɔf] | 'snow/ice' | |
Azeri | tüfəng | [t̪y̆fæɲɟ] | 'ɡun' | |
Basque | fin | [fin] | 'thin' | |
Bengali | ফুল/ful | [ful] | 'flower' | |
Catalan[3] | fort | [ˈfɔɾt] | 'strong' | |
Chechen | факс / faks | [faks] | 'fax' | |
Chinese | Cantonese | 飛 / fēi | [fei̯˥] | 'to fly' |
Mandarin | 飛 (traditional) / 飞(simplified) / fēi | [feɪ̯˥] | ||
Coptic | ϥⲧⲟⲟⲩ/ftoow | [ftow] | 'four' | |
Czech | foukat | [ˈfoʊ̯kat] | 'to blow' | |
Dutch[4] | fiets | [fits] | 'bike' | |
English | All dialects | fill | [fɪɫ] | 'fill' |
Cockney[5] | think | [fɪŋk] | 'think' | |
Many British urban dialects[6] | ||||
Some younger New Zealanders[7][8] | ||||
Broad South African[9] | ||||
Indian South African[10] | fair | [ʋ̥eː] | 'fair' | |
Esperanto | fajro | [ˈfajɾo] | 'fire' | |
Ewe[11] | eflen | [éflé̃] | 'he spit off' | |
French[12] | fabuleuse | [fäbyˈløːz̪] | 'fabulous' | |
Galician | faísca | [faˈiska] | ||
German | fade | [ˈfaːdə] | 'bland' | |
Goemai | f'at' | [fat] | 'to blow' | |
Greek | φύση / fysī | [ˈfisi] | ||
Gujarati | ફળ / faļ | [fəɭ] | 'fruit' | |
Hebrew | סופר/sofer | [so̞fe̞ʁ] | 'writer' | |
Hindustani | साफ़ / صاف/saaf | [sɑːf] | 'clean' | |
Hungarian | figyel | [ˈfiɟɛl] | 'he/she pays attention' | |
Indonesian | fajar | [fadʒar] | 'dawn' | |
Italian | fantasma | [fän̪ˈt̪äzmä] | 'ghost' | |
Kabardian | фыз/fyz | [fəz] | 'woman' | |
Kabyle | afus | [afus] | 'hand' | |
Khmer | កាហ្វេ / kahvé | [kaːfeː] | 'coffee' | |
Macedonian | фонетика/fonetika | [fɔnetika] | 'phonetics' | |
Māori | whakapapa | [fakapapa] | 'genealogy' | |
Malay | feri | [feri] | 'ferry' | |
Maltese | fenek | [fenek] | 'rabbit' | |
Norwegian | filter | [filtɛɾ] | 'filter' | |
Persian | فکر/fekr | [fekr] | 'thought' | |
Polish[13] | futro | [ˈfut̪rɔ] (help·info) | 'fur' | |
Portuguese[14] | fala | [ˈfalɐ] | 'speech' | |
Punjabi | ਫ਼ੌਜੀ/faujī | [fɔːd͡ʒi] | 'soldier' | |
Romanian[15] | foc | [fo̞k] | 'fire' | |
Russian[16] | орфография/orfografiya | [ɐrfɐˈɡrafʲɪjə] | 'orthography' | |
Serbo-Croatian[17] | фаза / faza | [fǎːz̪ä] | 'phase' | |
Slovak | fúkať | [ˈfu̞ːkätɕ] | 'to blow' | |
Somali | feex | [fɛħ] | 'wart' | |
Spanish[18] | fantasma | [fã̠n̪ˈt̪a̠zma̠] | 'ghost' | |
Swahili | kufa | [kufɑ] | 'to die' | |
Swedish | fisk | [ˈfɪsk] | 'fish' | |
Thai | ฝน/fon | [fon˩˩˦] | 'rain' | |
Turkish | saf | [säf] | 'pure' | |
Ukrainian[19] | Фастів/fastiv | [ˈfɑsʲtʲiw] | 'Fastiv' | |
Vietnamese[20] | pháo | [faːw˧ˀ˥] | 'firecracker' | |
Welsh | ffon | [fɔn] | 'stick' | |
West Frisian | fol | [foɫ] | 'full' | |
Yi | ꃚ / fu | [fu˧] | 'roast' | |
Zapotec | Tilquiapan[21] | cafe | [kafɘ] | 'coffee' |
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