Bilabial consonant

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Bilabial consonant

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Phonetics

Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that comprises the study of the sounds of human speech. It is concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds , and the processes of their physiological production, auditory reception, and neurophysiological perception....
, a bilabial consonant is a consonant

Consonant

In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the upper vocal tract, the upper vocal tract being defined as that part of the vocal tract that lies above the larynx....
articulated with both lip

Lip

Lips are a visible body part at the mouth of humans and many animals. Lips are soft, movable, and serve as the opening for food intake, as an erogenous organ used in kissing and other acts of intimacy, as a tactile sensory organ, and in the articulation of speech....
s. The bilabial consonants identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet

International Phonetic Alphabet

The International Phonetic Alphabet "The acronym 'IPA' strictly refers [...] to the 'International Phonetic Association'. But it is now such a common practice to use the acronym also to refer to the alphabet itself that resistance seems pedantic....
(IPA) are:

Owere Igbo

Igbo language

Igbo is a language spoken in Nigeria by around 20-25 million people, the Igbo people, especially in the southeastern region once identified as Biafra and parts of Southsouthern region of Nigeria....
has a six-way contrast among bilabial plosives: .

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International Phonetic Alphabet

IPA	Description	Example
IPA	Description	Language	Orthography	IPA	Meaning
	bilabial nasal Bilabial nasal The bilabial nasal is a type of consonantal sound used in almost all spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is m....	English English language English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...	man	[]	man Man A man is a male human. The term man is used for an adult human male, while the term boy being the usual term for a human male child or adolescent human male....
	voiceless bilabial plosive Voiceless bilabial plosive The voiceless bilabial plosive is a type of consonantal sound used in many Speech communication languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is p....	English English language English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...	spin	[]	spin
	voiced bilabial plosive Voiced bilabial plosive The voiced bilabial plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some Speech communication languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is b....	English English language English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...	bed	[]	bed
	voiceless bilabial fricative Voiceless bilabial fricative The voiceless bilabial fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some Speech communication languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is p....	Japanese Japanese language IPA: [n?iho?go] is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is related to the Ryukyuan languages....	??? (fujisan)	[]	Mount Fuji Mount Fuji is the highest mountain in Japan at . Along with Mount Tate and Mount Haku, it is one of Japan's "Three Holy Mountains" . An active volcano that last erupted in 1707?08, Mount Fuji straddles the boundary of Shizuoka Prefecture and Yamanashi Prefecture Prefectures of Japan just west of Tokyo, from which it can be seen on a clear day....
	voiced bilabial fricative Voiced bilabial fricative The voiced bilabial fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some Speech communication languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is B....	Ewe Ewe language Ewe is a Niger-Congo language spoken in Ghana, Togo and Benin by over three million people. Ewe is part of a cluster of related languages commonly called Gbe languages, spoken in southeastern Ghana and southern Togo....	???	[]	Ewe
	bilabial approximant	Spanish Spanish language Spanish or Castilian is a Romance languages that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade....	lobo	[]	wolf
	bilabial trill Bilabial trill The 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 , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is B....
	bilabial click Bilabial click The bilabial clicks are a family of click consonants found as phonemes only in the Tuu languages, in the language of Botswana, in a single word in Hadza language, and in the Damin ritual jargon of Australia....

Owere Igbo

Igbo language

Tlingit language

The Tlingit language is spoken by the Tlingit people of Southeast Alaska and Western Canada. It is a branch of the Na-Den? languages family. Tlingit is very endangered language, with fewer than 140 native speakers still living, all of whom are bilingual or near-bilingual in English....
, Chipewyan, Oneida

Oneida language

Oneida is an Iroquoian language spoken primarily by the Oneida tribe people in the U.S. states of New York and Wisconsin, and the Canadian province of Ontario....
, and Wichita

Wichita language

Wichita is a language death Caddoan languages language spoken in Oklahoma. Only one fluent speaker remains, Doris McLemore,, although nine other people are believed to speak it to some extent....
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Bilabial consonant

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