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In Phonetics , labiodentals are Consonants articulated with the lower lip and the upper teeth. The labiodental consonants identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet are:

Notes:
# is an Allophone of /m/ that occurs before /v/ and /f/.
#The stops (the plosives and the nasal ) are not confirmed to exist as separate Phoneme s in any language.

The plosives are sometimes written as '''' ''(qp'' and ''db'' Monogram s). Some languages, such as XiNkuna Tsonga , have true labiodental Affricate s, (that is, ), as opposed to the bilabial-labiodental affricate of German .

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