Labial approximant

Labial approximant is the name of a class of consonants.

Subclasses

• Labio-velar approximant, a consonant sound written as ⟨w⟩ in the International Phonetic Alphabet
• Voiceless labio-velar approximant, a consonant sound written as ⟨ʍ⟩ in the International Phonetic Alphabet
• Voiced bilabial fricative, a consonant sound written as ⟨β⟩ in the International Phonetic Alphabet
• Labiodental approximant, a consonant sound written as ⟨ʋ⟩ in the International Phonetic Alphabet
• Labialized palatal approximant, a consonant sound written as ⟨ɥ⟩ in the International Phonetic Alphabet