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...

Some linguists posit voiceless approximants distinct from voiceless fricatives. To them, English /ʍ/ is an approximant [w̥], a labialized glottal fricative...

Look up labiovelar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Labiovelar consonant may refer to: Labial–velar consonant such as [k͡p] (a consonant made at two...

necessarily a semivowel. Semivowels form a subclass of approximants. Although "semivowel" and "approximant" are sometimes treated as synonymous, most authors...

bilabial approximant is analyzed as filling a phonological gap in the labiovelar series of the consonant system rather than the bilabial series. Proto-Germanic...

speakers, particularly in the south, use a bilabial approximant [β̞] or a labiovelar approximant [w]. The lateral /l/ is slightly velarised postvocalically...

approximant /ɫ/, like the pronunciation of ⟨l⟩ in "bell" and "milk" Labiovelar approximant /w/, like the ⟨w⟩ in "water" voiced alveolar lateral fricative /ɮ/...

can be represented with the symbols for the palatal approximant [j] and the labiovelar approximant [w], with the symbols for the close vowels [i] and [u]...

voiceless [ʍ] from voiced [w]; see wine–whine merger and voiceless labiovelar approximant. Marginal in most accents, and otherwise merged with /k/, see Lock–loch...

is a labiovelar approximant before back vowels (in the northernmost dialects also before front vowels), whereas it is a Labiodental approximant in Standard...