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  2. Bilabial consonant - Wikipedia

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    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/.

  3. Category:Bilabial consonants - Wikipedia

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    Voiced bilabial affricate; Voiced bilabial click; Voiced bilabial flap; Voiced bilabial fricative; Voiced bilabial implosive; Voiced bilabial nasal; Voiced bilabial trill; Voiced labial–palatal approximant; Voiceless bilabial affricate; Voiceless bilabial fricative; Voiceless bilabial implosive; Voiceless bilabial nasal; Voiceless bilabial trill

  4. Bilabial click - Wikipedia

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    English does not have a labial click (or any click consonant, for that matter) as a phoneme, but a plain bilabial click does occur in mimesis, as a lip-smacking sound children use to imitate a fish. Labial clicks only occur in the Tuu and Kx'a families of southern Africa, and in the Australian ritual language Damin .

  5. List of consonants - Wikipedia

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    bilabial clicks [ʘ] etc. bilabial nasal [m] (man) bilabial ejective [pʼ] voiced bilabial implosive [ɓ] voiceless bilabial plosive [p] (spin) voiced bilabial plosive [b] (bed) voiceless bilabial affricate [pɸ] voiced bilabial affricate [bβ] voiceless bilabial fricative [ɸ] voiced bilabial fricative [β] bilabial approximant [β̞] bilabial ...

  6. Bilabial ejective stop - Wikipedia

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    Features of the bilabial ejective: Its manner of articulation is occlusive, which means it is produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract. Since the consonant is also oral, with no nasal outlet, the airflow is blocked entirely, and the consonant is a plosive. Its place of articulation is bilabial, which means it is articulated with both ...

  7. Voiced bilabial nasal - Wikipedia

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    The voiced bilabial nasal is a type of consonantal sound which has been observed to occur in about 96% of spoken languages. [1] The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is m , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is m. The bilabial nasal occurs in English, and it is the sound represented by "m" in map and rum.

  8. Voiced bilabial fricative - Wikipedia

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    Its bilabial approximant is analyzed as filling a phonological gap in the labiovelar series of the consonant system rather than the bilabial series. [4] Proto-Germanic [ 5 ] and Proto-Italic [ 6 ] are also reconstructed as having had this contrast, albeit with [β] being an allophone for another consonant in both cases.

  9. Voiced bilabial plosive - Wikipedia

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    The voiced bilabial plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is b , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is b. The voiced bilabial stop occurs in English, and it is the sound denoted by the letter b in obey [oʊˈbeɪ].