Voiceless bidental fricative explained

The voiceless bidental fricative is a rare consonantal sound found in one natural language, in the Shapsug dialect of Adyghe, where it appears as a variant of pronounced as //x//.^{[1] [2]}

People with hypoglossia (abnormally small tongue) may use it for target pronounced as //s//.

Features

Features of the voiceless bidental fricative:

• Its place of articulation is bidental, which means it is articulated with the lower and upper teeth pressed together.

See also

• List of phonetics topics

References

pronounced as /navigation/

Notes and References

1. Book: Ladefoged . Peter . Ian . Maddieson . 1996 . The Sounds of the World's Languages . Oxford . Blackwell . 978-0-631-19815-4. 144–145.
2. Book: Trask, R. L. . A Dictionary of Phonetics and Phonology . 2004-08-02 . Routledge . 978-1-134-83101-2 . en.