Labial-velar approximant

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w
Pulmonic Consonant
IPA: w
X-SAMPA: w
Kirshenbaum: w
Place of Articulation: Labial-velar
Manner of Articulation: Approximant
Phonological features: [+approximant]

[+sonorant]
[+contin-artic]
[+contin-acous]
[+delayed release]
[+voice]
[+LABIAL]
  [+round]
[+DORSAL]
  [+high]
  [+back]
  [+tense]

The labial-velar approximant is a semi-vowel, and can be considered a consonantal version of the vowel u. It's voiceless equivalent is /ʍ/

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Labial-velar approximants in natlangs

English

Voiced w win /wɪn/
Unvoiced ʍ (p,t,k)w; (q)u twin /twɪn/ [tʍɪn]

The sound was originally Ƿ (wynn) which comes from the Runic.

Japanese

Voiced わ (wa) 私 /watasi/

Old Norse

Voiced v Vikingr /wikiŋgr/

Latin

Voiced v vīdī /wiːdiː/

Nahuatl

Voiced hu, uh cihuātl /siwaːtɬ/
(c)u, u(c) cuīca /kwiːka/

Labial-velar approximants in conlangs

Klingon

Voiced (w)  (wab) /wab/

See Also