Voiceless labial–palatal fricative

A voiceless labial–palatal fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound – more accurately called a voiceless labialized palatal fricative – is ⟨çʷ⟩, ⟨çᵝ⟩, or ⟨çᶣ⟩. An actual labial–palatal fricative would be written ⟨ɸ͡ç⟩, but such a doubly articulated sound is unlikely to occur in any language: Ladefoged and Maddieson were unable to confirm that any language has fricatives produced at two places of articulation, as the term "labial–palatal" implies, and doubt that they are possible in ordinary language.