Voiceless bidental fricative

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 /x/.[1][2]

Voiceless bidental fricative
h̪͆
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People with hypoglossia (abnormally small tongue) may use it for target /s/.

Features

Features of the voiceless bidental fricative:

Occurrence

LanguageWordIPAMeaningNotes
AdygheBlack Sea (Shapsug) dialect[1][2]дахэ[daːh̪͆a]'pretty'Corresponds to [x] in other dialects.

See also

  • List of phonetics topics

References

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