Bilabial consonant
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| Places of articulation |
|---|
• 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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) | [ɸuʑisaɴ] | 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.
