Bilabial consonant
Template:Short description Template:IPA notice In phonetics, a bilabial consonant is a labial consonant articulated with both lips.
Frequency
Bilabial consonants are very common across languages. Only around 0.7% of the world's languages lack bilabial consonants altogether, including Tlingit, Chipewyan, Oneida, and Wichita,[1] though all of these have a labial–velar approximant Template:IPAslink.
Varieties
Some bilabial consonants identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) are:
| IPA | Description | Example | |||
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| Language | Orthography | IPA | Meaning | ||
| Script error: No such module "IPA". | voiceless bilabial nasal | Hmong | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | Hmong |
| Script error: No such module "IPA". | voiced bilabial nasal | English | man | Script error: No such module "IPA". | man |
| Script error: No such module "IPA". | voiceless bilabial plosive | English | spin | Script error: No such module "IPA". | spin |
| Script error: No such module "IPA". | voiced bilabial plosive | English | bed | Script error: No such module "IPA". | bed |
| Script error: No such module "IPA". | voiceless bilabial affricate | KaingangTemplate:Sfnp | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | 'seed' |
| Script error: No such module "IPA". | voiced bilabial affricate | ShipiboTemplate:Sfnp | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | 'small intestine' |
| Script error: No such module "IPA". | voiceless bilabial fricative | Japanese | Script error: No such module "Lang". (Template:Transliteration) | Script error: No such module "IPA". | Mount Fuji |
| Script error: No such module "IPA". | voiced bilabial fricative | Ewe | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | Ewe |
| Script error: No such module "IPA". | bilabial approximant | Spanish | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | wolf |
| Script error: No such module "IPA". | voiced bilabial flap | Mono[2] | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | 'send' |
| Script error: No such module "IPA". | voiceless bilabial trill | Pará Arára[3] | Script error: No such module "IPA". | 'to throw away' | |
| Script error: No such module "IPA". | voiced bilabial trill | Nias | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | lower jaw |
| Script error: No such module "IPA". | bilabial ejective stop | Adyghe | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | meat |
| Script error: No such module "IPA". | bilabial ejective fricative | Yuchi[4] | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | Template:Gloss |
| Script error: No such module "IPA". | voiceless bilabial implosive | Kaqchikel | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | 'pot' |
| Script error: No such module "IPA". | voiced bilabial implosive | Jamaican Patois | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | beat |
| Script error: No such module "IPA". | bilabial clicks (many distinct consonants) | Nǁng | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Script error: No such module "IPA". | meat |
Owere Igbo has a six-way contrast among bilabial stops: Script error: No such module "IPA"..Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Other varieties
The extensions to the IPA also define a Template:Vanchor (Template:IPAblink) for smacking the lips together. A lip-smack in the non-percussive sense of the lips audibly parting would be Script error: No such module "IPA"..[5]
The IPA chart shades out bilabial lateral consonants, which is sometimes read as indicating that such sounds are not possible. The fricatives Script error: No such module "IPA". and Script error: No such module "IPA". are often lateral, but since no language makes a distinction for centrality, the allophony is not noticeable.
See also
References
Citations
Sources
General references
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