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...

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

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

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]...

labiodental fricative) and /w/ (voiced labiovelar approximant). Instead, many Indians use a frictionless labiodental approximant [ʋ] for words with either sound...

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...