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Labial-velar consonants are doubly articulated
Doubly articulated consonant

Doubly articulated consonants are consonants with two simultaneous primary place of articulation of the same manner of articulation . They are a subset of co-articulated consonants....
 at the velum
Soft palate

The soft palate is the soft biological_tissue constituting the back of the roof of the mouth. The soft palate is distinguished from the hard palate at the front of the mouth in that it does not contain bone....
 and the 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. They are sometimes called "labiovelar consonant
Labiovelar consonant

The term labiovelar is ambiguous. It may mean Labial-velar consonant , or it may mean labialization velar consonant .When the manner of articulation is a stop consonant, nasal consonant, or fricative consonant, these are quite different....
s", a term which can also refer to labialized velars, such as and the approximant .

Truly doubly articulated labial-velars occur as plosive
Stop consonant

A stop, plosive, or occlusive is a consonant sound produced by stopping the airflow in the vocal tract. The terms plosive and stop are usually used interchangeably, but they are not perfect synonyms....
s and nasal stop
Nasal consonant

A nasal consonant is produced with a lowered soft palate in the mouth, allowing air to escape freely through the nose. The oral cavity still acts as a resonance chamber for the sound, but the air does not escape through the mouth as it is blocked by the tongue....
s in the majority of languages in West and Central Africa, and are relatively common in the eastern end of New Guinea. They include . The Yélî Dnye language
Yélî Dnye language

The Y?l? Dnye language, also known as Yele, is the language of Rossel island, the easternmost island in the Louisiade Archipelago off the eastern tip of Papua New Guinea....
 of Rossel Island, Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands ....
, has both labial-velars and labial-alveolar consonant
Labial-alveolar consonant

A labial-alveolar consonant is a consonant produced with two simultaneous place of articulation: At the lips , and at the gums .The Y?l? Dnye language of Rossel Island, Papua New Guinea, appears to be unique in having distinct labial-alveolar and labial-postalveolar places of articulation, as illustrated below....
s.






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Labial-velar consonants are doubly articulated
Doubly articulated consonant

Doubly articulated consonants are consonants with two simultaneous primary place of articulation of the same manner of articulation . They are a subset of co-articulated consonants....
 at the velum
Soft palate

The soft palate is the soft biological_tissue constituting the back of the roof of the mouth. The soft palate is distinguished from the hard palate at the front of the mouth in that it does not contain bone....
 and the 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. They are sometimes called "labiovelar consonant
Labiovelar consonant

The term labiovelar is ambiguous. It may mean Labial-velar consonant , or it may mean labialization velar consonant .When the manner of articulation is a stop consonant, nasal consonant, or fricative consonant, these are quite different....
s", a term which can also refer to labialized velars, such as and the approximant .

Truly doubly articulated labial-velars occur as plosive
Stop consonant

A stop, plosive, or occlusive is a consonant sound produced by stopping the airflow in the vocal tract. The terms plosive and stop are usually used interchangeably, but they are not perfect synonyms....
s and nasal stop
Nasal consonant

A nasal consonant is produced with a lowered soft palate in the mouth, allowing air to escape freely through the nose. The oral cavity still acts as a resonance chamber for the sound, but the air does not escape through the mouth as it is blocked by the tongue....
s in the majority of languages in West and Central Africa, and are relatively common in the eastern end of New Guinea. They include . The Yélî Dnye language
Yélî Dnye language

The Y?l? Dnye language, also known as Yele, is the language of Rossel island, the easternmost island in the Louisiade Archipelago off the eastern tip of Papua New Guinea....
 of Rossel Island, Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands ....
, has both labial-velars and labial-alveolar consonant
Labial-alveolar consonant

A labial-alveolar consonant is a consonant produced with two simultaneous place of articulation: At the lips , and at the gums .The Y?l? Dnye language of Rossel Island, Papua New Guinea, appears to be unique in having distinct labial-alveolar and labial-postalveolar places of articulation, as illustrated below....
s. Labial velar unvoiced plosives and nasals also occur in Vietnamese
Vietnamese language

Vietnamese , formerly known under French colonization as Annamese , is the national language and official language language of Vietnam. It is the mother tongue of the Vietnamese people , who constitute 86% of Demographics of Vietnam, and of about three million overseas Vietnamese, most of whom live in the United States....
, albeit only at the end of words.

IPA Description Example
Language Orthography IPA Meaning
voiceless labial-velar plosive
Voiceless labial-velar plosive

The voiceless labial-velar 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 ....
 Logba
Logba language

Logba is a Kwa language spoken in the south-eastern Ghana by approximately 7 500 people. The Logba people call themselves and their language Ikpana, which means ?defenders of truth?....
 ò-kpày?` 'God'
voiced labial-velar plosive
Voiced labial-velar plosive

The voiced labial-velar 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 ....
 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....
 Ewegbe 'the Ewe language'
labial-velar nasal
Labial-velar nasal

The labial-velar nasal stop is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ....
 Vietnamese
Vietnamese language

Vietnamese , formerly known under French colonization as Annamese , is the national language and official language language of Vietnam. It is the mother tongue of the Vietnamese people , who constitute 86% of Demographics of Vietnam, and of about three million overseas Vietnamese, most of whom live in the United States....
 cung 'sector'


To pronounce these, try saying , but close your lips as you would for . Then release just as you would do to produce these sounds. Note that while 90% of the occlusion overlaps, the onset of the velar occurs slightly before that of the labial, and the release of the labial occurs slightly after that of the velar, so that the preceding vowel sounds like it's followed by a velar, while the following vowel sounds like it's following a labial. Thus the order of the symbols in and is motivated by the phonetic details of these sounds.

These sounds are clearly single consonants rather than consonant cluster
Consonant cluster

In linguistics, a consonant cluster is a group of consonants which have no intervening vowel. In English, for example, the groups and are consonant clusters in the word splits....
s. The Eggon language
Eggon language

Eggon is one of the Benue-Congo languages spoken in Nigeria.External links*...
, for example, contrasts these possibilities, with /bg/ and /gb/ both distinct from . Ignoring tone, we have:

Single consonantTwo-consonant sequence
to pound to dig
a dog to beat, to kill
a room a stomach
to break to grind
to die to kneel
to arrive to divide


For transcribing these sounds, occasionally ligatures will be seen instead of digraphs with a tie bar:

Labial Velars
Note that although such symbols are readily understood, they are not sanctioned by the IPA, and have no Unicode
Unicode

Unicode is a computing industry standard allowing computers to consistently represent and manipulate Character expressed in most of the world's writing systems....
 values. They can, however, be specified as the way an OpenType
OpenType

OpenType is a scalable format for computer fonts initially developed by Microsoft, with Adobe Systems later joining in. OpenType as a technology was announced publicly in 1996 and had a significant number of OpenType fonts shipping by 2000?2001....
 font displays gb and kp digraphs.

Labial-velar plosives also occur as ejective
Ejective consonant

In phonetics, ejective consonants are voiceless consonants that are pronounced with simultaneous closure of the glottis. In the phonology of a particular language, ejectives may contrast with aspiration or tenuis consonants....
  and implosive
Implosive consonant

Implosive consonants are stop consonant with a mixed glottalic ingressive and pulmonic egressive airstream mechanism. That is, the airstream is controlled by moving the glottis downward in addition to expelling air from the lungs....
  (the tie bar has been removed for legibility). There may be labial-velar approximants in languages like 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....
; see labiovelar consonant
Labiovelar consonant

The term labiovelar is ambiguous. It may mean Labial-velar consonant , or it may mean labialization velar consonant .When the manner of articulation is a stop consonant, nasal consonant, or fricative consonant, these are quite different....
. 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....
s are sometimes considered to be labial-velar consonants as well, though the validity of this classification is debated.

See also


  • Place of articulation
    Place of articulation

    In articulatory phonetics, the place of articulation of a consonant is the point of contact, where an obstruction occurs in the vocal tract between an active articulator and a passive articulator ....
  • List of phonetics topics
    List of phonetics topics

    A * Acoustic phonetics* Active articulator* Affricate* Airstream mechanism* Alfred C. Gimson* Allophone* Alveolar approximant* Alveolar consonant...