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Voiced labial–velar approximant | |
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w | |
IPA Number | 170 |
Audio sample | |
Encoding | |
Entity (decimal) | w |
Unicode (hex) | U+0077 |
X-SAMPA | w |
Braille |
Compressed labial–velar approximant | |
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w͍ | |
ɰᵝ |
The voiced labial–velar approximant is a type of consonantal sound, used in certain spoken languages, including English. It is the sound denoted by the letter ⟨w⟩ in the English alphabet; likewise, the symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨w⟩, or rarely , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is w
. In most languages it is the semivocalic counterpart of the close back rounded vowel . In inventory charts of languages with other labialized velar consonants, /w/ will be placed in the same column as those consonants. When consonant charts have only labial and velar columns, /w/ may be placed in the velar column, (bi)labial column, or both. The placement may have more to do with phonological criteria than phonetic ones.
Some languages have a voiced labial–prevelar approximant, which is more fronted than the place of articulation of the prototypical voiced labialized velar approximant, though not as front as the prototypical labialized palatal approximant.
Features of the voiced labial–velar approximant:
Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
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Abkhaz | ауаҩы/awawë | 'human' | See Abkhaz phonology | ||
Alemannic | Bernese German | Giel | 'boy' | Allophone of [l] | |
Arabic | Modern Standard | وَرْد/ward | 'rose' | See Arabic phonology | |
Assamese | ৱাশ্বিংটন/Wašińton | 'Washington' | |||
Basque | lau | 'four' | |||
Belarusian | воўк/vowk | 'wolf' | See Belarusian phonology | ||
Bengali | ওয়াদা/wada | 'promise' | Allophone of [o] and [u] when preceding a vowel word-initially. See Bengali phonology | ||
Berber | ⴰⵡⴰⵍ/äwäl | 'speech' | |||
Breton | nav | 'nine' | |||
Bulgarian | Colloquial | лопата/lopata | 'shovel' | Contemporary pronunciation of /ɫ/, an ongoing sound change. See Bulgarian phonology. | |
Pernik dialects | This dialect has a long-standing tradition of pronouncing /ɫ/ as /w/, similar to the Polish language. Independent of the similar sound change happening in the standard language. | ||||
Standard Bulgarian | уиски/uiski | 'whiskey' | Appears in borrowings. See Bulgarian phonology | ||
Catalan | quart | 'fourth' | Post-lexically after /k/ and /ɡ/. See Catalan phonology | ||
Chinese | Cantonese | 挖/waat | ⓘ | 'dig' | See Cantonese phonology |
Mandarin | 挖/wā | ⓘ | See Mandarin phonology | ||
Danish | hav | 'ocean' | Allophone of [v] | ||
Dutch | Colloquial | kouwe | 'cold' | Lenited allophone of /d/ after /ʌu̯/. See Dutch phonology | |
Standard Surinamese | welp | 'cub' | May also occur in this context in some continental Dutch accents and/or dialects. Corresponds to [ʋ] in most of the Netherlands and to [β̞] in Belgium and (southern) parts of the Netherlands. See Dutch phonology | ||
English | weep | 'weep' | See English phonology | ||
French | oui | 'yes' | See French phonology | ||
German | Quelle | 'source' | Some regions [citation needed] | ||
Hawaiian | wikiwiki | 'fast' | May also be realized as . See Hawaiian phonology | ||
Hebrew | Mizrahi | כּוֹחַ/kowaḥ | 'power' | See Modern Hebrew phonology | |
Hindustani | Hindi | विश्वास/višwas | 'believe' | See Hindustani phonology | |
Urdu | višwas/وشواس | ||||
Irish | vóta | 'vote' | See Irish phonology | ||
Italian | uomo | 'man' | See Italian phonology | ||
Kabardian | уэ/wa | ⓘ | 'you' | ||
Kazakh | ауа/awa | 'air' | |||
Korean | 왜가리/wägari | 'heron' | See Korean phonology | ||
Luxembourgish | zwee | 'two' | Allophone of /v/ after /k, t͡s, ʃ/. See Luxembourgish phonology | ||
Malay | wang | 'money' | |||
Malayalam | ഉവ്വ്/uwî | 'Yes' | Some dialects. | ||
Mayan | Yucatec | witz | 'mountain' | ||
Nepali | हावा/hawa | 'wind' | See Nepali phonology | ||
Odia | ଅଗ୍ରୱାଲ୍/ogrowal | 'Agrawal' | |||
Pashto | ﻭﺍﺭ/war | 'one time' | |||
Persian | Dari | وَرزِش/warziš | 'sport' | may approach /ʋ/ in some regional dialects. | |
Iranian Persian | نَو/now | 'new' | Only as a diphthong or colloquially. | ||
Polish | łaska | ⓘ | 'grace' | See Polish phonology. Corresponds to in older pronunciation and eastern dialects | |
Portuguese | Most dialects | quando | 'when' | Post-lexically after /k/ and /ɡ/. See Portuguese phonology | |
boa | 'good' (f.) | Epenthetic glide or allophone of /u/, following a stressed rounded vowel and preceding an unrounded one. | |||
General Brazilian | qual | 'which' | Allophone of /l/ in coda position for most Brazilian dialects. | ||
Romanian | dulău | 'mastiff' | See Romanian phonology | ||
Russian | волк/volk | 'wolf' | Southern dialects. | ||
Serbo-Croatian | Croatian | vuk | 'wolf' | Allophone of /ʋ/ before /u/. See Serbo-Croatian phonology | |
Seri | cmiique | 'person' | Allophone of /m/ | ||
Slovene | cerkev | 'church' | Allophone of /ʋ/ in the syllable coda. Voiceless [ʍ] before voiceless consonants. See Slovene phonology | ||
Sotho | sewa | 'epidemic' | See Sesotho phonology | ||
Svan | კუ̂ენ/k'wen | 'marten' | |||
Spanish | cuanto | 'as much' | See Spanish phonology | ||
Swahili | mwanafunzi | 'student' | |||
Swedish | Central Standard | Labialized approximant consonant; allophone of /ɡ/ in casual speech before the protruded vowels /ɔ, oː/. See Swedish phonology | |||
Tagalog | araw | 'day' | See Tagalog phonology | ||
Thai | แหวน /wén | 'ring' | |||
Vietnamese | tuần | 'week' | See Vietnamese phonology | ||
Ukrainian | любов/lübov | 'love' | See Ukrainian phonology | ||
Welsh | gwae | 'woe' | See Welsh phonology | ||
West Frisian | skowe | 'to shove' |