Voiceless Labial–palatal Fricative

Voiceless Labial–palatal Fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ɸʲ⟩.

Characteristics

The voiceless labial–palatal fricative has the following characteristics:

• 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 labial–palatal, which means it is articulated by rounding the lips and making the tongue contact the hard palate.
• Its phonation is voiceless, which means it is produced without vibrations of the vocal cords.

Occurrence

The voiceless labial–palatal fricative occurs in languages such as Japanese, where it is written as ⟨ふ⟩ in the Hiragana script and as ⟨フ⟩ in the Katakana script.

See also

• List of phonetics topics
• Voiceless bilabial fricative
• Voiceless palatal fricative