Voiceless Labial–palatal Fricative

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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[edit | edit source]

The voiceless labial–palatal fricative has the following characteristics:

Occurrence[edit | edit source]

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.

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Contributors: Prab R. Tumpati, MD