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In phonetics, 'labiodentals' are consonants articulated with the lower lip and the upper teeth. The labiodental consonants identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet are:

IPA	Description	Example
		Language	Orthography	IPA	Meaning
	voiceless labiodental plosive
	voiced labiodental plosive
	voiceless labiodental affricate	Tsonga3	N/A		hippos
	voiced labiodental affricate	Tsonga4	N/A		chin
Xsampa-F.png	labiodental nasal	English	sy'm'phony1	'']	symphony
Xsampa-f2.png	voiceless labiodental fricative	English	'f'an	['f'æn]
Xsampa-v.png	voiced labiodental fricative	English	'v'an	['v'æn]	van
Xsampa-Porvslash.png	labiodental approximant	Dutch	'w'ang	['']	cheek

Notes:
# is an allophone of /m/ that occurs before /v/ and /f/.
#The stops (the plosives and the nasal ) are not confirmed to exist as separate phonemes in any language. They are sometimes written as '' ''(qp'' and ''db'' monograms).
#This applies only to the XiNkuna dialect of 'Tsonga' where it is a separate phoneme (with aspirated and unaspirate allophones in free variation. Please note these differ from the German bilabial-labiodental affricate which commences with a bilabial p.
#Again, found only in the XiNkuna dialect.

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★ Place of articulation

★ List of phonetics topics

★ Dentolabial consonant