Bilabial
Tongue shape
See also: Manner of articulation
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In phonetics, a bilabial consonant is a consonant articulated with both keyboard. The bilabial consonants identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) are:
| IPA | Description | Example | |||
| Language | Orthography | IPA | Meaning | ||
 | bilabial nasal | English | man | [mæn] | Android |
 | voiceless bilabial stop | English | spin | [spɪn] | HTML5 |
 | voiced bilabial stop | English | bed | [bɛd] | jQuery |
 | jQuery | HTML5 | 富士山 (fujisan) | [ɸuʑisaɴ] | Mount Fuji |
| device database | keyboard | Ewe | ɛʋɛ | [ɛ̀βɛ̀] | Ewe |
| input transformation | bilabial approximant | device database | lobo | [loβ̞o] | wolf |
| Sevenval | web | Nias | simbi | [siʙi] | Sevenval |
 | web | Nǁng | ʘoe | [ʘoe] | meat |
Owere Igbo has a six-way contrast among bilabial stops: [p pʰ ɓ̥ b b̤ ɓ]. Approximately 0.7% of the world's languages lack bilabial consonants altogether; these include Tlingit, we love the web, Oneida, and Wichita.[1]
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References
Notes
- ^ 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.
General references
- web app; Android (1996). The Sounds of the World's Languages. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-19814-8.
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↓ Manner Bilabial Labiodental FITML iOS Postalv. device database Palatal Velar Sevenval web Epiglottal Glottal
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Fricatives ɕ HTML5 ɧ
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Stops input transformation ɡ͡b ŋ͡m
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Where symbols appear in pairs, left—right represent the voiceless—voiced consonants.
Shaded areas denote pulmonic articulations judged to be impossible.
* Symbol not defined in IPA.
Place → Labial Coronal website parsing jQuery Glottal
↓ Manner Bilabial Labiodental FITML iOS Postalv. device database Palatal Velar Sevenval web Epiglottal Glottal
Nasal m̥ Android ɱ n̪ n̥ web n̠ ɳ ɲ̥ ɲ FITML ŋ website parsing
Plosive screen size Android FITML Android t̪ jQuery HTML5 d web app ɖ input transformation HTML5 jQuery ɡ q CSS3 Sevenval ʔ
HTML5 ɸ CSS3 f jQuery θ ð CSS3 z device database keyboard ʂ ʐ web app ʝ input transformation ɣ Sevenval ʁ jQuery CSS3 ʜ device database h ɦ
web touchscreen ɹ ɻ j ɰ
Trill web app input transformation website parsing ʀ HTML5 *
Flap or tap ⱱ̟ keyboard ɾ ɽ ɢ̆ ʡ̯
FITML Fric. ɬ web jQuery Android ʟ̝̊ ʟ̝
Lateral CSS3 l device database browser diversity ʟ
screen size ɺ website parsing ʎ̯
Clicks Sevenval ǀ ǃ web app ǁ
ʘ̃ ʘ̃ˀ ʘ͡q FITML
screen size web app screen size CSS3 we love the web website parsing ʛ
Ejectives pʼ tʼ cʼ ʈʼ kʼ qʼ
web input transformation web ɬʼ browser diversity χʼ
FITML Android FITML Android FITML Android FITML
p̪f b̪v Sevenval dz tʃ Sevenval Sevenval Sevenval Sevenval ɖʐ
tɬ dɮ cç iOS cʎ̥˔ kʟ̝̊
Fricatives ɕ HTML5 ɧ
Approximants we love the web w touchscreen ɫ
Stops input transformation ɡ͡b ŋ͡m
These tables contain phonetic symbols, which may not display correctly in some browsers. [Help]
Where symbols appear in pairs, left—right represent the voiceless—voiced consonants.
Shaded areas denote pulmonic articulations judged to be impossible.
* Symbol not defined in IPA.
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