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    In phonetics, labiodentals are consonants articulated with the lower lip and the upper teeth. The labiodental consonants identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet are:



    Notes:
      is an allophone of /m/ that occurs before /v/ and /f/.
      The stops (the plosives and the nasal ) are not confirmed to exist as separate phonemes in any language.

    The plosives are sometimes written as (qp and db monograms). Some languages, such as XiNkuna Tsonga, have true labiodental affricates, (that is, ), as opposed to the bilabial-labiodental affricate of German.

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