Labiodental consonant

In phonetics, labiodentals are consonants articulated with the lower lip and the upper teeth. The labiodental consonants identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet are:

IPA	Description	Example
		Language	Orthography	IPA	Meaning
	voiceless labiodental plosive
	voiced labiodental plosive
Xsampa-F.png	labiodental nasal	English	symphony1	]	symphony
Xsampa-f2.png	voiceless labiodental fricative	English	fan	[fæn]	fan
Xsampa-v.png	voiced labiodental fricative	English	van	[væn]	van
Xsampa-Porvslash.png	labiodental approximant	Dutch	wang	[]	cheek

Notes:# is an allophone of /m/ that occurs before /v/ and /f/.#The stops (the plosives and the nasal ) are not confirmed to exist as separate phonemes in any language.

The plosives are sometimes written as (qp and db monograms). Some languages, such as XiNkuna Tsonga, have true labiodental affricates, (that is, ), as opposed to the bilabial-labiodental affricate of German.

See also

* Place of articulation
* List of phonetics topics
* Dentolabial consonant