Voiced labiodental fricative
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| Voiced labiodental fricative | |
|---|---|
| v | |
| IPA Number | 129 |
| Audio sample | |
| Duration: 2 seconds. | |
| Encoding | |
| Entity (decimal) | v |
| Unicode (hex) | U+0076 |
| X-SAMPA | v |
| Braille |  |
The voiced labiodental fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨v⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is v.
The sound is similar to voiced alveolar fricative /z/ in that it is familiar to most European speakers[citation needed] but is a fairly uncommon sound cross-linguistically, occurring in approximately 21.1% of languages.[1] Moreover, most languages that have /z/ also have /v/ and similarly to /z/, the overwhelming majority of languages with [v] are languages of Europe, Africa, or Western Asia, although the similar labiodental approximant /ʋ/ is also common in India. The presence of [v] and absence of [w], is a very distinctive areal feature of European languages and those of adjacent areas of Siberia and Central Asia.[citation needed] Speakers of East Asian languages that lack this sound may pronounce it as [b] (Korean and Japanese), or [f]/[w] (Cantonese and Mandarin), and thus be unable to distinguish between a number of English minimal pairs.[citation needed]
In certain languages, such as Danish,[2] Faroese,[3] Icelandic or Norwegian[4] the voiced labiodental fricative is in a free variation with the labiodental approximant.
Features[edit]
Features of the voiced labiodental 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 voiced, which means the vocal cords vibrate during the articulation.
- It is an oral consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth only.
- Because the sound is not produced with airflow over the tongue, the central–lateral dichotomy does not apply.
- The airstream mechanism is pulmonic, which means it is articulated by pushing air solely with the intercostal muscles and abdominal muscles, as in most sounds.
Occurrence[edit]
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abkhaz | европа | [evˈropʼa] | 'Europe' | See Abkhaz phonology | |
| Afrikaans | wees | [vɪəs] | 'to be' | See Afrikaans phonology | |
| Albanian | valixhe | [vaˈlidʒɛ] | 'case' | ||
| Arabic | Algerian[5] | كاڥي | [kavi] | 'ataxy' | See Arabic phonology |
| Hejazi | فيروس | [vajˈruːs] | 'virus' | Only used in loanwords, transcribed and pronounced as [f] by many speakers. | |
| Siirt[5] | ذهب | [vaˈhab] | 'gold' | See Arabic phonology | |
| Armenian | Eastern[6] | վեց | 'six' | ||
| Assyrian | ܟܬܒ̣ܐ ctava | [ctaːva] | 'book' | Only in the Urmia dialects. [ʋ] is also predominantly used. Corresponds to [w] in the other varieties. | |
| Bai | Dali | ? | [ŋv˩˧] | 'fish' | |
| Bulgarian | вода | [voda] | 'water' | See Bulgarian phonology | |
| Catalan | Alguerese[7] | vell | [ˈveʎ] | 'old' | See Catalan phonology |
| Balearic[8] [7] | |||||
| Southern Catalonia[9] | |||||
| Valencian[9][7] | |||||
| Chechen | вашa / vaşa | [vaʃa] | 'brother' | ||
| Chinese | Wu | 饭 | [vɛ] | 'cooked rice' | |
| Sichuanese | 五 | [vu˥˧] | 'five' | Corresponds to /w/ in standard Mandarin. | |
| Czech | voda | [ˈvodä] | 'water' | See Czech phonology | |
| Danish | Standard[10] | véd | [ve̝ːˀð̠˕ˠ] | 'know(s)' | Most often an approximant [ʋ].[2] See Danish phonology |
| Dutch | All dialects | wraak | [vraːk] | 'revenge' | Allophone of /ʋ/ before /r/. See Dutch phonology |
| Most dialects | vreemd | [vreːmt] | 'strange' | Often devoiced to [f] by speakers from the Netherlands. See Dutch phonology | |
| Standard[11] | |||||
| English | All dialects | valve | [citation needed] | 'valve' | See English phonology |
| African American[12] | breathe | [bɹiːv] | 'breathe' | Does not occur word-initially. See th-fronting | |
| Cockney[13] | [bɹəi̯v] | ||||
| Esperanto | vundo | [ˈvundo] | 'wound' | See Esperanto phonology | |
| Ewe[14] | evlo | [évló] | 'he is evil' | ||
| Faroese[3] | veður | [ˈveːʋuɹ] | 'speech' | Word-initial allophone of /v/, in free variation with an approximant [ʋ].[3] See Faroese phonology | |
| French[15] | valve | [valv] | 'valve' | See French phonology | |
| Georgian[16] | ვიწრო | [ˈvitsʼɾo] | 'narrow' | ||
| German | Wächter | [ˈvɛçtɐ] | 'guard' | See Standard German phonology | |
| Greek | βερνίκι verníki | [ve̞rˈnici] | 'varnish' | See Modern Greek phonology | |
| Hebrew | גב | [ɡav] | 'back' | See Modern Hebrew phonology | |
| Hindi[17] | व्रत | [vrət̪] | 'fast' | See Hindustani phonology | |
| Hungarian | veszély | [vɛseːj] | 'danger' | See Hungarian phonology | |
| Irish | bhaile | [vaːlə] | 'home' | See Irish phonology | |
| Italian[18] | avare | [aˈvare] | 'miserly' (f. pl.) | See Italian phonology | |
| Judaeo-Spanish | mueve | [ˈmwɛvɛ] | 'nine' | ||
| Kabardian | вагъуэ | 'star' | Corresponds to [ʒʷ] in Adyghe | ||
| Macedonian | вода | [vɔda] | 'water' | See Macedonian phonology | |
| Maltese | iva | [iva] | 'yes' | ||
| Norwegian | Urban East[4] | venn | [ve̞nː] | 'friend' | Allophone of /ʋ/ before a pause and in emphatic speech.[4] See Norwegian phonology |
| Occitan | Auvergnat | vol | [vɔl] | 'flight' | See Occitan phonology |
| Limousin | |||||
| Provençal | |||||
| Persian | Western | ورزش | [varzeʃ] | 'sport' | See Persian phonology |
| Polish[19] | wór | 'bag' | See Polish phonology | ||
| Portuguese[20] | vila | [ˈvilɐ] | 'town' | See Portuguese phonology | |
| Romanian | val | [väl] | 'wave' | See Romanian phonology | |
| Russian[21][22] | волосы | [ˈvʷo̞ɫ̪əs̪ɨ̞] | 'hair' | Contrasts with palatalized form; may be an approximant [ʋ] instead.[22] See Russian phonology | |
| Serbo-Croatian | voda | [vɔ'da] | 'water' | See Serbo-Croatian phonology | |
| Slovak[23] | vzrast | [vzräst] | 'height' | Appears only in syllable onset before voiced obstruents; the usual realization of /v/ is an approximant [ʋ].[23] See Slovak phonology | |
| Slovene[24] | Standard | filozof gre | [filoˈz̪ôːv ˈɡɾěː] | 'philosopher goes' | Allophone of /f/ before voiced consonants.[24] See Slovene phonology |
| Some dialects | voda | [ˈvɔ̀ːd̪á] | 'water' | Instead of /ʋ/. See Slovene phonology | |
| Spanish[25] | afgano | [ävˈɣ̞äno̞] | 'Afghan' | Allophone of /f/ before voiced consonants. See Spanish phonology | |
| Swedish | vägg | [ˈvɛɡː] | 'wall' | See Swedish phonology | |
| Turkish[26] | vade | [väːˈd̪ɛ] | 'due date' | The main allophone of /v/; realized as bilabial [β ~ β̞] in certain contexts.[26] See Turkish phonology | |
| Tyap | vak | [vag] | 'road' | ||
| Urdu | ورزش | [vəɾzɪʃ] | ‘exercise’ | See Hindustani phonology | |
| Vietnamese[27] | và | [vaː˨˩] | 'and' | In southern dialects, is in free variation with [j]. See Vietnamese phonology | |
| West Frisian | weevje | [ˈʋeɪ̯vjə] | 'to weave' | Never occurs in word-initial positions. See West Frisian phonology | |
| Welsh | fi | [vi] | 'I' | See Welsh phonology | |
| Yi | ꃶ/vu | [vu˧] | 'intestines' | ||
See also[edit]
Notes[edit]
- ^ "UPSID Segment Frequency". Retrieved 13 February 2023.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Basbøll (2005:66)
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Árnason (2011:115)
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Kristoffersen (2000:74)
- ^ Jump up to: a b Watson (2002:15)
- ^ Dum-Tragut (2009:18)
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "La /v/ labiodental" (PDF). IEC. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
- ^ Carbonell & Llisterri (1992:53)
- ^ Jump up to: a b Wheeler (2002:13)
- ^ Basbøll (2005:62)
- ^ Gussenhoven (1992:45)
- ^ McWhorter (2001), pp. 148.
- ^ Wells (1982), p. 328.
- ^ Ladefoged (2005:156)
- ^ Fougeron & Smith (1993:73)
- ^ Shosted & Chikovani (2006:255)
- ^ Janet Pierrehumbert, Rami Nair, Volume Editor: Bernard Laks (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 2010-10-19
{{citation}}:|author=has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Rogers & d'Arcangeli (2004:117)
- ^ Jassem (2003:103)
- ^ Cruz-Ferreira (1995:91)
- ^ Padgett (2003:42)
- ^ Jump up to: a b Yanushevskaya & Bunčić (2015:223)
- ^ Jump up to: a b Hanulíková & Hamann (2010:374)
- ^ Jump up to: a b Herrity (2000:16)
- ^ 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
- ^ Jump up to: a b Göksel & Kerslake (2005:6))
- ^ Thompson (1959:458–461)
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