consonants articulated with the lower lip and the upper teeth
A labiodental consonant is a speech sound made by placing your lower lip against your upper teeth, like the "f" and "v" sounds in English. These consonants are found across many languages and are a basic category linguists use to describe and understand how humans produce different sounds when speaking.
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In phonetics, labiodentals are consonants articulated with the lower lip and the upper teeth, such as [f] and [v].
Labiodental consonants in the IPA
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).