Bilabial ejective fricative

The bilabial ejective fricative is a rare type of consonantal sound. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ɸʼ.

Bilabial ejective fricative
ɸʼ
IPA Number126 + 401
Encoding
Entity (decimal)ɸʼ
Unicode (hex)U+0278U+02BC
X-SAMPAp\_>

Features

Features of the bilabial ejective fricative:

  • Its phonation is voiceless, which means it is produced without vibrations of the vocal cords.
  • It is an oral consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth only.

Occurrence

LanguageWordIPAMeaningNotes
Yuchi[1]
gollark: Fascinating, and yet you haven't made Macron.
gollark: Why not?
gollark: It's not like I can't just pass it off to GTech™ bee neuron intelligences.
gollark: Maybe *I* am to learn Toki Pona.
gollark: This would be even more ethical.

See also

  • List of phonetic topics

References

  1. Crawford, James M. (1973). "Yuchi Phonology". International Journal of American Linguistics. 39 (3): 173–179. doi:10.1086/465261.


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