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The voiceless bilabial implosive is a rare consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ɓ̥ or pʼ↓ . A dedicated IPA letter, ƥ , was withdrawn in 1993.
The voiceless labial–velar implosive [ƙ͜ƥ] also may occur in Central Igbo. [19] [20] Some English speakers use a voiceless velar implosive [ƙ] to imitate the "glug-glug" sound of liquid being poured from a bottle, but others use a voiced implosive [ɠ]. [21]
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 /w/.
That is the opposite pattern to what is found in the implosive consonants, in which the bilabial is common and the velar is rare. [ 4 ] Ejective fricatives are rare for presumably the same reason: with the air escaping from the mouth while the pressure is being raised, like inflating a leaky bicycle tire, it is harder to distinguish the ...
The voiced bilabial implosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ɓ , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is b_< .
Labial–velar stops can also occur as an ejective [k͡pʼ] (unattested) and a voiceless implosive [ƙ͜ƥ]. Floyd (1981) and Clark (1990) report that voiced and voiceless implosives /ɠ͡ɓ, ƙ͜ƥ/ occur in Central Igbo. As stated above, the voiced implosive has been confirmed in Lese.
The voiceless bilabial trill is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ʙ̥ . The X-SAMPA symbol is B\_0. This sound is typologically extremely rare. It occurs in languages such as Pará Arára [1] and Sercquiais. [citation needed]
The voiceless retroflex implosive is an extremely rare consonantal sound, used in very few spoken languages. There is no official symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound, but ᶑ̊ or ʈʼ↓ may be used, or the old convention 𝼉 ( ƭ̢ ).