title: Labiodental ejective fricative
text: # Labiodental ejective fricative
  
  The labiodental ejective fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨fʼ⟩.
  
  ## Features
  
  Features of the labiodental ejective fricative:
  
  * Its manner of articulation is fricative, which means it is produced by constricting air flow through a narrow channel at the place of articulation, causing turbulence.
  * Its place of articulation is labiodental, which means it is articulated with the lower lip and the upper teeth.
  * Its phonation is voiceless, which means it is produced without vibrations of the vocal cords.
  * It is an oral consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth only.
  * The airstream mechanism is ejective (glottalic egressive), which means the air is forced out by pumping the glottis upward.
  
  ## Occurrence
  
  | Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Abkhaz | апа | [afʼa] | 'thin' | Only found in this word, which is pronounced as [afʼa] only by some speakers, pronounced [apʼa] by the majority. |
  | Highland Oaxaca Chontal | ɫof'aneh | [ɬofʼaneʔ] | 'corn cob' | |
  | Kabardian | фӏыцӏэ | (help·info) | 'black' | Corresponds to [ʃʷʼ] in Adyghe. |
  | Yapese | f'aang | [fʼaːŋ] | 'type of eel' | |
  