Labial-velar approximant

w
Pulmonic Consonant
IPA:	w
X-SAMPA:	w
Kirshenbaum:	w
Place of Articulation:	Labial-velar
Manner of Articulation:	Approximant

The velar nasal is a very common sound cross-linguistically. It is a semi-vowel, and can be considered a consonantal version of the vowel u.

Labial-velar approximants in natlangs

English

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

Latin

Voiced

v

vīdī /wiːdiː/

See Also

• Voiceless labial-velar fricative - ʍ
• Palatal approximant - j