A voiced labiodental affricate ( in IPA) is a rare affricate consonant that is initiated as a voiced labiodental stop and released as a voiced labiodental fricative . The dental diacritic is frequently omitted from the stop component in transcriptions of the sound, yielding .
Features Features of a voiced labiodental affricate:
Occurrence Language Word IPA Meaning Notes Chinese Teochew / 'future' Allophone of before in Chaoyang dialectSome Central Plains Mandarin dialects / 'backbone'The labialized retroflex fricatives and affricates (sometimes including ) in Old Mandarin (respectively represented by sh, zh, ch in modern Standard Mandarin) become the labiodental (sometimes including ).The unaspirated occasionally becomes voiced under intervocalic situations.EnglishSome speakersinvent'invent'Allophone of /v/ after nasal consonants for some speakers. Usually occurs in fast and/or casual speech.obvious'obvious'Occasional pronunciation of a /bv/ or /pv/ consonant cluster. Italian Some central-south dialects 'at the top' Labiodental; allophone of after nasals. See Italian phonologyLuxembourgish 'underground battle' Allophone of a word-final before a word-initial vowel. Occurs only in German loanwords. See Luxembourgish phonologyNgiti 'thorny vine' Less commonly Sopvoma (Mao)'kill by goring'Distinct from the voiced labiodental fricative . Tsonga XiNkuna dialect 'chin'
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