Bilabial consonant
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Places of articulation |
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• Labial |
Bilabial |
Labial-velar |
Labial-alveolar |
Labiodental |
Dentolabial |
• Bidental |
• Coronal |
Linguolabial |
Interdental |
Dental |
Denti-alveolar |
Alveolar |
Apical |
Laminal |
Subapical |
Postalveolar |
Alveolo-palatal |
Retroflex |
• Dorsal |
Palatal |
Labial-palatal |
Velar |
Uvular |
Uvular-epiglottal |
• Radical |
Pharyngeal |
Epiglotto-pharyngeal |
Epiglottal |
• Glottal |
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In phonetics, a bilabial consonant is a consonant articulated with both lips. The bilabial consonants identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) are:
IPA | Description | Example | |||
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Language | Orthography | IPA | Meaning | ||
bilabial nasal | English | man | [mæn] | man | |
voiceless bilabial plosive | English | spin | [spɪn] | spin | |
voiced bilabial plosive | English | bed | [bɛd] | bed | |
voiceless bilabial fricative | Japanese | 富士山 (fujisan) | [ɸud͡ʑisaɴ] | Mount Fuji | |
voiced bilabial fricative | Ewe | ɛʋɛ | [ɛ̀βɛ̀] | Ewe | |
bilabial approximant | Spanish | lobo | [loβ̞o] | wolf | |
bilabial trill | |||||
bilabial click | Nǀu | ʘoe | [ʘoe] | meat |
Owere Igbo has a six-way contrast among bilabial plosives: [p pʰ ɓ̥ b b̤ ɓ]. Approximately 0.7% of the world's languages lack bilabial consonants at all; these include Tlingit, Chipewyan, Oneida, and Wichita [1].
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[edit] References
- ^ Maddieson, Ian. 2008. Absence of Common Consonants. In: Haspelmath, Martin & Dryer, Matthew S. & Gil, David & Comrie, Bernard (eds.) The World Atlas of Language Structures Online. Munich: Max Planck Digital Library, chapter 18. Available online at http://wals.info/feature/18. Accessed on 2008-09-15.
- Ladefoged, Peter; Ian Maddieson (1996). The Sounds of the World's Languages. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-19814-8.