Labiodental ejective fricative explained

Above:	Labiodental ejective fricative
Ipa Symbol:	fʼ
X-Sampa:	f_>

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 (IPA|fʼ).

Features

Features of the labiodental ejective fricative:

Occurrence

Family	Language	Word	IPA	Meaning	Notes
Northwest Caucasian		Kabardian: [[Cyrillic script\|апа]]	[afʼa]	'thin'	Only found in this word, which is pronounced as [afʼa] only by some speakers, pronounced [apʼa] by the majority. ^[1]
Chontal	Highland Oaxaca Chontal	ɫof'aneh	[ɬofʼaneʔ]	'corn cob'
Northwest Caucasian	Kabardian	Kabardian: [[Cyrillic script\|'''фӏ'''ыцӏэ]] / Kabardian: '''ḟ'''ıše / Kabardian: '''ڡ'''‍ہ‍ڗە		'black'	Corresponds to pronounced as /[ʃʷʼ]/ in Adyghe.^[2]
Oceanic	Yapese^[3]	f'aang	pronounced as /[fʼaːŋ]/	'type of eel'

See also

List of phonetic topics

pronounced as /navigation/

References

Colarusso, John. 1992. A Grammar of the Kabardian Language. University of Calgary Press.

Notes and References

p257, Hewitt, B. G. 1989. Abkhaz. Croom Helm Descriptive Grammars.
Colarusso, John. 1992. A Grammar of the Kabardian Language.
p32, Ballantyne, Keira Gebbie. 2005. Textual Structure and Discourse Prominence in Yapese Narrative. Doctoral dissertation, University of Hawai'i.