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Labioalveolar consonant

Labioalveolar consonants are articulated with the lower lip against the alveolar ridge. They are only found in disordered speech, typically occurring in speakers with excessive overbite when articulating labial consonants. In the extIPA, they are represented with the alveolar diacritic ⟨◌͇⟩ on the corresponding labial. To avoid descenders, it may be placed above instead: ⟨◌᫨⟩.

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Labioalveolar
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Labioalveolar consonants are articulated with the lower lip against the alveolar ridge. They are only found in disordered speech, typically occurring in speakers with excessive overbite when articulating labial consonants.1 In the extIPA, they are represented with the alveolar diacritic ⟨◌͇⟩ on the corresponding labial. To avoid descenders, it may be placed above instead: ⟨◌᫨⟩.23

List of consonants in the extIPA

extIPA symbol Description
m͇̊ Voiceless labioalveolar nasal
m͇ⓘ Voiced labioalveolar nasal
p᫨ⓘ Voiceless labioalveolar plosive
b͇ Voiced labioalveolar plosive
f͇ⓘ Voiceless labioalveolar fricative
v͇ⓘ Voiced labioalveolar fricative
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References

References

  1. "Places and manners of articulation Glides". www.almerja.com.
  2. Rybka Piotr Klaudiusz. "Międzynarodowy alfabet fonetyczny w slawistyce". opus.us.edu.pl (in Polish). University of Silesia (Polish: Uniwersytet Śląski).
  3. Kirk Miller (2024-03-31). "Unicode request for IPA diacritics above and one below" (PDF). www.unicode.org. Unicode Consortium.