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The labiodental approximant is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is P or v.
Features Features of the labiodental approximant: In English language|English English may have the labiodental approximant as a realisation of {{IPA|/r/}}. Although traditionally regarded as an idiosyncrasy, speech defect, or infantilism, use of labiodental is increasing in many accents of British English. English speakers may also use it to pronounce place names in languages that do use it, such as Hawai‘ian Wahiawa. Dutch language|Dutch In Northern Dutch, the letter "w" usually represents the labiodental approximant. German language|German In many varieties of German, the letter "w" represents the labiodental approximant. In the northern standard language, however, it represents v. Hawaiian language|Hawaiian Hawaiian has the labiodental approximant as a phoneme, and it is denoted by "w", as in wikiwiki ("very fast"). Finnish language|Finnish The Finnish phoneme is pronounced as a labiodental approximant by many speakers, perhaps by most. Example: vaivautuva ("taking the trouble to do something" or "kneadable"). Indian languages Most Indian languages such as Hindi and Sanskrit have this phoneme. Also, most speakers of Indian English cannot differentiate between the English phonemes and and pronounce both as . See also | |||||||||||||||||||
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