Voiced bilabial plosive
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The voiced bilabial plosive is a type of consonant
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al sound, used in some spoken language
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s. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet
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 that represents this sound is b, and the equivalent X-SAMPA
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 symbol is b. The voiced bilabial plosive occurs in English
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, and it is the sound denoted by the letter ⟨b⟩ in boy. Many India
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n languages, such as Hindi
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, have a two-way contrast between breathy voice
Breathy voice
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d /bʱ/ and plain /b/.

Features

Features of the voiced bilabial plosive:

Varieties

IPA Description
b plain b
labialised
Labialisation
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b̜ʷ semi-labialised
b̹ʷ strongly labialised
palatalised
breathy voice
Breathy voice
Breathy voice is a phonation in which the vocal cords vibrate, as they do in normal voicing, but are held further apart, so that a larger volume of air escapes between them. This produces an audible noise...

d

Occurrence

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