Labiodental ejective fricative
# Labiodental ejective fricative

The labiodental ejective fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨fʼ⟩.

## Features

Features of the labiodental ejective fricative:

* Its manner of articulation is fricative, which means it is produced by constricting air flow through a narrow channel at the place of articulation, causing turbulence.
* Its place of articulation is labiodental, which means it is articulated with the lower lip and the upper teeth.
* 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.
* The airstream mechanism is ejective (glottalic egressive), which means the air is forced out by pumping the glottis upward.

## Occurrence

| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Abkhaz | апа | [afʼa] | 'thin' | Only found in this word, which is pronounced as [afʼa] only by some speakers, pronounced [apʼa] by the majority. |
| Highland Oaxaca Chontal | ɫof'aneh | [ɬofʼaneʔ] | 'corn cob' | |
| Kabardian | фӏыцӏэ | (help·info) | 'black' | Corresponds to [ʃʷʼ] in Adyghe. |
| Yapese | f'aang | [fʼaːŋ] | 'type of eel' | |
