Labiodental ejective fricative

<h2 id="features">Features</h2>
<p>Features of the labiodental ejective fricative:
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<ul><li>Its <a href="/facts/Manner_of_articulation/HxyCqDQC">manner of articulation</a> is <a href="/facts/Fricative/1FQuuhfX">fricative</a>, which means it is produced by constricting air flow through a narrow channel at the place of articulation, causing <a href="/facts/Turbulence/NpgFUhG5">turbulence</a>.</li>
<li>Its <a href="/facts/Place_of_articulation/exCzaxeF">place of articulation</a> is <a href="/facts/Labiodental_consonant/tbsml4ED">labiodental</a>, which means it is articulated with the lower <a href="/facts/Lip/cUlpthmx">lip</a> and the upper <a href="/facts/Teeth/Wc6IqwVf">teeth</a>.</li>
<li>Its <a href="/facts/Phonation/u2IGLdgG">phonation</a> is voiceless, which means it is produced without vibrations of the vocal cords.</li>
<li>It is an <a href="/facts/Oral_consonant/feM4cful">oral consonant</a>, which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth only.</li>
<li>The <a href="/facts/Airstream_mechanism/qooe2ESC">airstream mechanism</a> is <a href="/facts/Ejective_consonant/TDKaffPV">ejective</a> (glottalic egressive), which means the air is forced out by pumping the <a href="/facts/Glottis/ClsRRUkM">glottis</a> upward.</li></ul>
<h2 id="occurrence">Occurrence</h2>
<table><tbody><tr><th>Family</th><th>Language</th><th>Word</th><th><a href="/facts/International_Phonetic_Alphabet/2e7jmUaG">IPA</a></th><th>Meaning</th><th>Notes</th></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Northwest_Caucasian_languages/BYQjgreq">Northwest Caucasian</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Abkhaz_language/CCHPFsb6">Abkhaz</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Cyrillic_script/0btN3oWC">апа</a></td><td>[afʼa]</td><td>'thin'</td><td>Only found in this word, which is pronounced as [afʼa] only by some speakers, pronounced [apʼa] by the majority. <a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Chontal_languages/gmbuduvU">Chontal</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Highland_Oaxaca_Chontal/3SwwmQcW">Highland Oaxaca Chontal</a></td><td><i>ɫof'aneh</i></td><td>[ɬofʼaneʔ]</td><td>'corn cob'</td><td></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Northwest_Caucasian_languages/BYQjgreq">Northwest Caucasian</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Kabardian_language/a1Yv2tUX">Kabardian</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Cyrillic_script/0btN3oWC">фӏыцӏэ</a> / <i>ḟıše</i> / ڡ‍ہ‍ڗە</td><td>[fʼət͡sʼa]ⓘ</td><td>'black'</td><td>Corresponds to [ʃʷʼ] in <a href="/facts/Adyghe_language/Eamslo4k">Adyghe</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Oceanic_languages/07rwWMIW">Oceanic</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Yapese_language/LLIhwT5f">Yapese</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a></td><td><i>f'aang</i></td><td>[fʼaːŋ]</td><td>'type of eel'</td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>
<h2 id="notes">Notes</h2>

<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/List_of_phonetic_topics/IwhbEHGN">List of phonetic topics</a></li></ul>

<ul><li><a href="/facts/John_Colarusso/neNPTyMC">Colarusso, John</a>. 1992. <i>A Grammar of the Kabardian Language</i>. University of Calgary Press.</li></ul>
<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="https://phoible.org/parameters?sSearch_0=f%CA%BC">List of languages with [fʼ]</a> on <a href="/facts/PHOIBLE/2qqHhjzI">PHOIBLE</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>p257, Hewitt, B. G. 1989. Abkhaz. Croom Helm Descriptive Grammars. <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Colarusso, John. 1992. A Grammar of the Kabardian Language. <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>p32, Ballantyne, Keira Gebbie. 2005. Textual Structure and Discourse Prominence in Yapese Narrative. Doctoral dissertation, University of Hawai'i. <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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Labiodental ejective fricative