How these sounds differ
mpfʼ
Voiceless Bilabial Affricate
- Voicing
- voiceless
- Place
- bilabial
- Manner
- affricate
- Class
- consonant
- In languages
- 1 / 500
mv
Voiced Bilabial Affricate
- Voicing
- voiced
- Place
- bilabial
- Manner
- affricate
- Class
- consonant
- In languages
- 0 / 500
Cross-linguistic distribution
1
Languages with mpfʼ
0
Languages with both
0
Languages with mv
0 languages in our database contrast both sounds as distinct phonemes. Languages that have one but not the other tend to merge them into a single phoneme — meaning speakers of those languages often struggle to hear the distinction when learning a language that contrasts them.