| Ipa Symbol: | ɸ |
| Ipa Number: | 126 |
| Decimal1: | 632 |
| Imagefile: | IPA Unicode 0x0278.svg |
| X-Sampa: | p\ |
| Kirshenbaum: | P |
| Braille: | 46 |
| Braille2: | 124 |
The voiceless bilabial fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is (IPA|ɸ), a Latinised form of the Greek letter Phi.
Features of the voiceless bilabial fricative:
| Language | Word | Meaning | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ainu: [[Katakana|フチ]] | pronounced as /[ɸu̜tʃi]/ | 'grandmother' | ||||
| '''f'''i | pronounced as /[ɸi]/ | 'body' | ||||
| Eastern dialects | Bengali: [[Bengali alphabet|'''ফ'''ল]] | pronounced as /[ɸɔl]/ | 'fruit' | Allophone of pronounced as /link/ in some eastern dialects; regular allophone of pronounced as //pʰ// in western dialects | ||
| English | Scouse | Allophone of pronounced as //pʰ//. See British English phonology[1] | ||||
| Southern England (some accents< | --e.g. that of 'Dani Connor Wild' on YouTube-->) | thought | pronounced as /[ˈɸɔːt]/ | Conflation of pronounced as //f// and pronounced as //θ// (see th-fronting) | ||
| fought | ||||||
| Ewe: [[African reference alphabet|é'''ƒ'''á]] | pronounced as /[éɸá]/ | 'he polished' | Contrasts with pronounced as //f// | |||
| Italian: [[Italian orthography|i ca'''p'''itani]] | pronounced as /[iˌhäɸiˈθäːni]/ | 'the captains' | Intervocalic allophone of pronounced as /link/. See Italian phonology and Tuscan gorgia. | |||
| [[Cyrillic script|чу'''ф'''чу'''ф''']] | pronounced as /[tʃuɸtʃuɸ]/ | 'rain' | ||||
| Japanese: [[kanji|腐敗]] / Japanese: [[Romanization of Japanese|'''f'''uhai]] | pronounced as /[ɸɯhai]/ | 'decay' | Allophone of pronounced as /link/ before pronounced as //ɯ//. See Japanese phonology | |||
| '''f'''y | pronounced as /[ɸɨ]/ | 'seed' | ||||
| Korean: [[hangul|후두개]] / Korean: [[Romanization of Korean|'''h'''udugae]] | pronounced as /[ɸʷudugɛ]/ | 'epiglottis' | Allophone of pronounced as //h// before pronounced as //u// and pronounced as //w//. See Korean phonology | |||
| pronounced as /[kòːɸɛ́]/ | 'basket' | |||||
| Maori: '''wh'''akapapa | pronounced as /[ɸakapapa]/ | 'genealogy' | Now more commonly /f/ due to the influence of English. See Māori phonology. | |||
| Nepali | pronounced as /[bäɸ]/ | 'vapour' | Allophone of /pʰ/. See Nepali phonology | |||
| '''p'''agai | pronounced as /[ɸɑɡɑi]/ | 'coconut' | ||||
| '''f'''i'''f'''aci | pronounced as /[ɸiɸatɕi]/ | 'type of spice' | ||||
| Some dialects | Spanish; Castilian: [[Spanish orthography|'''f'''uera]] | pronounced as /[ˈɸwe̞ɾa̠]/ | 'outside' | Non-standard variant of pronounced as //f//. See Spanish phonology | ||
| Standard European | Spanish; Castilian: [[Spanish orthography|pu'''b''']] | pronounced as /[ˈpa̠ɸ̞]/ | 'pub' | An approximant; allophone of pronounced as //b// before a pause. | ||
| North-Central Peninsular[2] | Spanish; Castilian: [[Spanish orthography|a'''b'''dicar]] | pronounced as /[a̠ɸðiˈka̠ɾ]/ | 'abdicate' | Allophone of pronounced as //b// in the coda. In this dialect, the unvoiced coda obstruents - pronounced as //p, t, k// - are realized as fricatives only if they precede a voiced consonant; otherwise, they emerge as stops. | ||
| Southern Peninsular | Spanish; Castilian: [[Spanish orthography|los '''v'''uestros]] | pronounced as /[lɔh ˈɸːwɛhtːɾɔh]/ | 'yours' | It varies with pronounced as /[βː]/ in some accents. Allophone of pronounced as //b// after pronounced as //s//. | ||
| Shompen[3] | pronounced as /[koɸeoi]/ | 'bench' | ||||
| [[Sylheti Nagari|'''ꠙꠥ'''ꠀ]] | pronounced as /[ɸua]/ | 'boy' | ||||
| Tahitian: {{okina | pronounced as /[ʔoːɸiː]/ | 'snake' | Allophone of pronounced as //f// | |||
| Some speakers | Turkish: [[Turkish alphabet|u'''f'''uk]] | pronounced as /[uˈɸʊk]/ | 'horizon' | Allophone of pronounced as //f// before rounded vowels and, to a lesser extent, word-finally after rounded vowels. See Turkish phonology | ||
| Turkmen: [[Turkmen alphabet|'''f'''abrik]] | pronounced as /[ɸabrik]/ | 'factory' | ||||
| di'''f'''e | pronounced as /[diɸe]/ | 'village' | ||||
pronounced as /navigation/