| Ipa Symbol: | pɸ |
The voiceless bilabial affricate (pronounced as /[p͡ɸ]/ in IPA) is a rare affricate consonant that is initiated as a bilabial stop pronounced as /[p]/ and released as a voiceless bilabial fricative pronounced as /[ɸ]/. It has not been reported to occur phonemically in any language.
Features of the voiceless bilabial affricate:
| Language | Word | Meaning | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dutch; Flemish: u'''p''' | pronounced as /[ʊp͡ɸ]/ | 'up, onto' | Optional pre-pausal allophone of pronounced as //p//. | |||
| up | pronounced as /[ˈɐʔp͡ɸ]/ | 'up' | Allophone of pronounced as //p//, occurs mainly word-finally. See English phonology | |||
| Rare allophone of pronounced as //p//. See English phonology | ||||||
| pronounced as /[ˈəp͡ɸ]/ | Word-initial and word-final allophone of pronounced as //p//; in free variation with a strongly aspirated stop pronounced as /[pʰ]/. See English phonology | |||||
| Port Talbot[1] | Allophone of /p/. In free variation with [pʰʰ]. | |||||
| pronounced as /[ˈʊp͡ɸ]/ | Possible syllable-initial and word-final allophone of pronounced as //p//. See English phonology | |||||
| Some speakers | German: [[German orthography|tro'''pf'''en]] | pronounced as /[ˈtʁ̥ɔp͡ɸn̩]/ | 'to drip' | Allophone of pronounced as //p͡f//. See Standard German phonology | ||
| fy | pronounced as /[ˈp͡ɸɤ]/ | 'seed' | Possible word-initial allophone of pronounced as //ɸ//. | |||
| pronounced as /[ˌp͡ɸìˑˈwɛ̈̄ːnǣ]/ | 'daughter' | Allophone of pronounced as //pʰ//, in free variation with pronounced as /[ph]/ and pronounced as /link/. See Taos phonology | ||||
pronounced as /navigation/