Voiceless labiodental fricative

IPA mark	f
IPA number	128
IPA character description	Latin minuscule f
Unicode	U + 0066 (f)
HTML (dec.)	& # 102;
X-SAMPA	f
Kirshenbaum	f
Audio sample ? / i [ ʔafa ]

The voiceless labiodental fricative (an unvoiced , with lower lip and teeth educated fricative ) has the following in different languages phonetic and orthographic realizations:

• German :
  • Loud : [⁠ f ⁠]
    • Fixed letter assignment: f , and its gemination ff
    • Letter v if it is not the voiced labiodental fricative represents: (partly due. Especially in the letters of indigenous words and in word and Silbenauslaut devoicing of Morphophonems [⁠ v ⁠] )
    • Letter w , rare (partly due. In word and Silbenauslaut devoicing of Morphophonems [⁠ v ⁠] )
    • Digraph ph
• English :
  • Loud : [⁠ f ⁠]
    • Fixed letter assignment: f , and its gemination ff
    • Digraph ph
    • Digraph gh : often after the vowel graphs au, ou
• French :
  • Loud : [⁠ f ⁠]
    • Fixed letter assignment: f , and its gemination ff
    • Digraph ph
• Italian :
  • Loud : [⁠ f ⁠]
    • Fixed letter assignment: f , and its gemination ff (long spoken: [ f: ])
• Russian :
  • Loud : [⁠ f ⁠]
    • Letter assignment : ф
• Spanish :
  • Loud : [⁠ f ⁠]
    • Letter assignment: f
• Arabic :
  • Loud : [⁠ f ⁠]
    • Letter: ف [fâ ']

See also

• consonant

Pulmonary consonants according to IPA (2005)	bilabial		labio- dental		dental		alveolar		post- alveolar		retroflex		palatal		velar		uvular		phase- ryngal		glottal
	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.
Plosives	​p​	​b​					​t​	​d​			​ʈ​	​ɖ​	​c​	​ɟ​	​k​	​ɡ​	​q​	​ɢ​			​ʔ​
Nasals		​m​		​ɱ​				​n​				​ɳ​		​ɲ​		​ŋ​		​ɴ​
Vibrants		​ʙ​						​r​										​ʀ​
Taps / flaps				​ⱱ​				​ɾ​				​ɽ​
Fricatives	​ɸ​	​β​	​f​	​v​	​θ​	​ð​	​s​	​z​	​ʃ​	​ʒ​	​ʂ​	​ʐ​	​ç​	​ʝ​	​x​	​ɣ​	​χ​	​ʁ​	​H​	​ʕ​	​H​	​ɦ​
lateral fricatives							​ɬ​	​ɮ​
Approximants				​ʋ​				​ɹ​				​ɻ​		​j​		​w​ ¹
lateral approximants								​l​				​ɭ​		​ʎ​		​ʟ​
¹ The labialised variant [ w ] was inserted here as a voiced velar approximant ( half vowel ) instead of the non-labialised variant [ ɰ ].