Bilabial ejective fricative
# Bilabial ejective fricative

The bilabial ejective fricative is a rare type of consonantal sound. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ɸʼ⟩.

## Features

Features of the bilabial 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 bilabial, which means it is articulated with both lips.
* 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 | Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Yuchi | Yuchi | | | | |
