Voiceless labiovelar fricative

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IPA mark ʍ
IPA number 169
IPA character description horizontally mirrored Latin minuscule w
Unicode U + 028D
HTML (dec.) & # 653;
X-SAMPA W
Kirshenbaum w<vls>

The voiceless fricative labiovelars (a voiceless , labial-velar fricative ) has the following in different languages phonetic and orthographic realizations:

Realization in different languages:

  • Slovenian [⁠ ʍ ⁠] : V, v in initial position before voiceless consonants, z. B. in vprašanje ("question")
  • English [⁠ ʍ ⁠] : Wh, wh (currently, inter alia, in Scottish and some southern and western American dialects from simple.. W [ w ] divorced)