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Labiodental Nasal IPA - Unicode> | align="center" style="font-size: 24px"| | | IPA - image | align="center"| | | X-SAMPA | align="center"|F | | Kirshenbaum | align="center"|M | | colspan="2"|Sound sample | The labiodental nasal is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is F. The IPA symbol is a lowercase letter m with a leftward hook protruding the from the lower right of the letter. The labiodental nasal is pronounced very similarly to the bilabial nasal , except instead of the lips touching each other, the lower lip touches the upper teeth, or sometimes vice-versa. The position of the lips and teeth is the same as for the production of the other labiodental consonants, like f and v. Features of this consonant: The labiodental nasal is fairly uncommon in English, and where it occurs it is an allophone of m. It is the sound that pronounced when an m is followed by f or v, as in comfort or circumvent. In other languages In colloquial German speech, the labiodental nasal is an allophone of n in words where "n" is followed by "f", such as fūnf fʏɱf. While this is not considered "Standard German", it is a very common pronunciation.
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