The series of labialized alveolar sibilant affricates and fricatives that exist in Adyghe became labiodental consonants in Kabardian, for example the Kabardian words "мафӏэ" "fire", "зэвы" "narrow", "фыз" "wife" and "вакъэ" "shoe" are pronounced as "машӏо" , "зэжъу" , "шъуз" and "цуакъэ" in Adyghe.