A voiced labiodental approximant is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. It is something between an English /w/ and /v/, pronounced with the teeth and lips held in the position used to articulate the letter V. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ʋ⟩, a letter v with a leftward hook protruding from the upper right of the letter. In some sources, this letter indicates a bilabial approximant,[1][2] though this is more accurately transcribed with an advanced diacritic, ⟨ʋ̟⟩.
A labiodental approximant is the typical realization of /v/ in the Indian South African variety of English. As the voiceless /f/ is also realized as an approximant ([ʋ̥]), it is also an example of a language contrasting voiceless and voiced labiodental approximants.[3]
Features
Features of a voiced labiodental approximant:
* Its manner of articulation is approximant, which means it is produced by narrowing the vocal tract at the place of articulation, but not enough to produce a turbulent airstream.
* Its place of articulation is labiodental, which means it is articulated with the lower lip and the upper teeth.
* Its phonation is voiced, which means the vocal cords vibrate during the articulation.
* It is an oral consonant, which means that air is not allowed to escape through the nose.
*Because the sound is not produced with airflow over the tongue, the median–lateral dichotomy does not apply.
* Its airstream mechanism is pulmonic, which means it is articulated by pushing air only with the intercostal muscles and abdominal muscles, as in most speech sounds.
Occurrence
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Äiwoo | nyiveli | [ɲiʋeli] | 'garden land'[4] | ||
| Armenian | Eastern[5] | ոսկի | [ʋɔski] | 'gold' | |
| Assyrian | ܗܘܐ / hawa | [hɑːʋɑ] | 'wind' | Predominant in the Urmia dialects. For some speakers, [v] is used. Corresponds to [w] in the other varieties. | |
| Catalan | Balearic | fava | [ˈfɑʋɐ] | 'bean' | Allophone of /v/.[6] See Catalan phonology |
| Valencian[6] | |||||
| Chinese | Mandarin | 為 | [we̞i]
[ʋêi] |
'for' | Prevalent in northern dialects. Corresponds to /w/ in other varieties. See Mandarin Phonology |
| Chuvash | аван | [aʋ'an] | 'good, well' | Corresponds to /w/ in other varieties. | |
| Dhivehi | ވަޅު / valhu | [ʋaɭu] | 'well' (noun) | See Dhivehi Phonology | |
| Danish | Standard[7] | véd | [ʋe̝ːˀð̠˕ˠ] | 'know(s)' | Realization of the phoneme /v/; may also be realized as [ʊ̯].[8] See Danish phonology |
| Dutch | Standard | wang | ⓘ | 'cheek' | Realised as bilabial in southern european dialects [β̞]. See Dutch phonology |
| English | Indian[3] | vine | [ʋaɪ̯n] | 'vine' | Corresponds to a fricative [v] in other accents. |
| Some Cockney speakers | rine | 'rine' | Mostly idiosyncratic but somewhat dialectal[9] (especially in London and South East England). See English phonology and R-labialization | ||
| Faroese[10] | røða | [ˈɹøːʋa] | 'speech' | Word-initial and intervocalic allophone of /v/. In the first case, it is in a free variation with a fricative [v].[10] See Faroese phonology | |
| Finnish | vauva | [ˈʋɑu̯ʋɑ] | 'baby' | See Finnish phonology | |
| German | Swiss | was | [ʋas] | 'what' | Corresponds to /v/ in Standard German.[11] |
| Guaraní | avañe'ẽ | [ʔãʋ̃ãɲẽˈʔẽ] | 'Guaraní language' | Contrasts with /w/ and /ɰ/ | |
| Hawaiian | wikiwiki | [ʋikiʋiki] | 'fast' | May also be realized as [w] or [v]. See Hawaiian phonology | |
| Hindustani | Hindi | वाला | [ʋɑːlɑː] | (the) 'one' | May also be realized as [w] or [v]. See Hindustani phonology. |
| Urdu | والا | ||||
| Italian | Some speakers[12] | raro | [ˈʋäːʋo] | 'rare' | Rendition alternative to the standard Italian alveolar trill [r], due to individual orthoepic defects and/or regional variations that make the alternative sound more prevalent, notably in South Tyrol (among the Italian-speaking minority), Val d'Aosta (bordering with France) and in parts of the Parma province, more markedly around Fidenza. Other alternative sounds may be a uvular trill [ʀ] or a voiced uvular fricative [ʁ].[12] See Italian phonology. |
| Icelandic[13] | lofa | ⓘ | 'intr. to promise/ tr. to praise' | Weakly articulated, traditionally described as a fricative /v/ (which it is in free variation with).[13][14] See Icelandic phonology | |
| Lao | ວີ / wi | [ʋíː] | 'hand fan' | May also be realized as [w]. See Lao phonology. | |
| Khmer | អាវុធ / avŭth | [ʔɑːʋut] | 'weapon' | See Khmer phonology | |
| Malayalam | വല/vala | [ʋɐlɐ] | 'net' | See Malayalam phonology | |
| Marathi | वजन | [ʋə(d)zən] | 'weight' | See Marathi phonology | |
| Miyako[15] | [ʋ̩tɑ] | 'thick' | May be syllabic. | ||
| Norwegian | Urban East[16][17] | [a] verbo | ⓘ | 'verb's principal parts' | Sometimes realized as a fricative [v].[17][18] See Norwegian phonology |
| Nsenga | ŵanthu | [ʋaⁿtʰu] | 'people' | ||
| Punjabi | Gurmukhi | ਵਾਲ | [ʋäːl] | 'hair' | Also an allophone of /v/ and /w/. |
| Shahmukhi | وال | ||||
| Russian[19] | вода | ⓘ | 'water' | Common realization of /v/; contrasts with palatalized form.[19] See Russian phonology | |
| Serbo-Croatian | ветар / vetar | ⓘ | 'wind' | /v/ is a phonetic fricative, although it has less frication than /f/. However, it does not interact with unvoiced consonants in clusters as a fricative would, and so is considered to be phonologically a sonorant (approximant).[20][21] See Serbo-Croatian Phonology | |
| Shona | vanhu | [ʋan̤u] | 'people' | Contrasts with /v/ and /w/. | |
| Sinhala | වතුර | [ʋat̪urə] | 'water' | ||
| Slovak[22] | vietor | ⓘ | 'wind' | Usual realization of /v/.[22] See Slovak phonology | |
| Slovene[23] | veter | [ˈʋéːt̪ə̀ɾ] | 'wind' | Also described as fricative [v].[24][25] See Slovene phonology | |
| Spanish[26] | Chilean | hablar | [äʋˈläɾ] | 'to speak' | Allophone of /b/. See Spanish phonology |
| Swedish | Some speakers | valvet | ⓘ | 'the vault' | See Swedish phonology |
| Tamil | வாய் | [ʋɑːj] | 'mouth' | See Tamil phonology | |
| Telugu | వల | [ʋala] | 'net' | ||
| Ukrainian[27] | Барвінкове | ⓘ | 'Barvinkove' | Possible prevocalic realization of /w/, most commonly before /i/.[27] See Ukrainian phonology | |
| West Frisian | wêr | [ʋɛːr] | 'where' | See West Frisian phonology | |
See also
- List of phonetics topics
- R-labialization
- Rhotacism (speech impediment): pronouncing ⟨r⟩ as [ʋ]
References
- ↑ Ladefoged, Peter (1968). A Phonetic Study of West African Languages: An Auditory-instrumental Survey (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 26. ISBN 9780521069632.
- ↑ Mathangwane, Joyce Thambole Mogatse (1996). Phonetics and Phonology of Ikalanga: A Diachronic and Synchronic Study (Thesis). Berkeley: University of California. p. 79.
- 1 2 Mesthrie (2004:960)
- ↑ Næss, Åshild (2017). A short dictionary of Äiwoo. Vol. A-PL 35. Canberra: Asia-Pacific Linguistics. hdl:1885/112469. ISBN 978-1-922185-37-2. OCLC 970690673.
- ↑ Dum-Tragut (2009:20)
- 1 2 Saborit Vilar (2009:52)
- ↑ Basbøll (2005:62)
- ↑ Basbøll (2005:27, 66)
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- 1 2 Árnason (2011:115)
- ↑ Schmid, Stephan (2010). "Segmental features of Swiss German ethnolects". In Calamai, Silvia; Celata, Chiara; Ciucci, Luca (eds.). Proceedings of the Workshop "Sociophonetics, at the crossroads of speech variation, processing and communication". Edizioni della Normale. pp. 69–72. ISBN 978-88-7642-434-2. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 27 April 2015.
- 1 2 Canepari (1999), pp. 98–101.
- 1 2 Árnason 2011, p. 106.
- ↑ Helgason (1991), p. ?, cited in Árnason (2011), p. 108
- ↑ Pellard, Thomas (19 January 2009). Why it is important to study the Ryukyuan languages: The example of Õgami Ryukyuan (PDF) (Speech). Oxford. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 October 2015.
- ↑ Kristoffersen (2000:22 and 25)
- 1 2 Vanvik (1979:41)
- ↑ Kristoffersen (2000:74)
- 1 2 Yanushevskaya & Bunčić (2015:223)
- ↑ Morén (2005:5–6)
- ↑ Brown, Wayles; Alt, Theresa (2004). "A Handbook of Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian". SEELRC. Duke University.
- 1 2 Hanulíková & Hamann (2010:374)
- ↑ Šuštaršič, Komar & Petek (1999:136)
- ↑ Priestley (2002:394)
- ↑ Greenberg (2006:18)
- ↑ Sadowsky, Scott (2010). "El alófono labiodental sonoro [v] del fonema /b/ en el castellano de Concepción (Chile): Una investigación exploratoria" (PDF). Estudios de Fonética Experimental. XIX: 231–261. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 April 2018.
- 1 2 Žovtobrjux & Kulyk (1965:121–122)
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