Voiceless bilabial affricate | |
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The voiceless bilabial affricate ([p͡ɸ] in IPA) is a rare affricate consonant that is initiated as a bilabial stop [p] and released as a voiceless bilabial fricative [ɸ]. It has not been reported to occur phonemically in any language.
Features of the voiceless bilabial affricate:
Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
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Dutch | Orsmaal-Gussenhoven dialect[1] | up | [ʊp͡ɸ] | 'up, onto' | Optional pre-pausal allophone of /p/.[1] |
English | Broad Cockney[2] | up | [ˈɐʔp͡ɸ] | 'up' | Allophone of /p/, occurs mainly word-finally.[3] See English phonology |
Received Pronunciation[4] | Rare allophone of /p/.[4] See English phonology | ||||
North Wales[5] | [ˈəp͡ɸ] | Word-initial and word-final allophone of /p/; in free variation with a strongly aspirated stop [pʰ].[5] See English phonology | |||
Scouse[6] | [ˈʊp͡ɸ] | Possible syllable-initial and word-final allophone of /p/.[6] See English phonology | |||
German | Some speakers | tropfen | [ˈtʁ̥ɔp͡ɸn̩] | 'to drop' | Allophone of /p͡f/. See Standard German phonology |
Kaingang[7] | fy | [ˈp͡ɸɤ] | 'seed' | Possible word-initial allophone of /ɸ/.[7] | |
Northern Tiwa | Taos dialect | [ˌp͡ɸìˑˈwɛ̈̄ːnǣ] | 'daughter' | Allophone of /pʰ/, in free variation with [ph] and [ɸ]. See Taos phonology |