Bilabial_consonant Bilabial_consonant

Bilabial consonant - Definition and Overview
Related Words: Affirmative, Allophone, Alveolar, Apical, Articulation, Aspiration, Assimilated, Assimilation, Automatic, Back, Balanced, Bilabial
Places of articulation
Labial consonant
Bilabial consonant
Labiodental consonant
Linguolabial consonant
Coronal consonant
Interdental consonant
Dental consonant
Retroflex consonant
Alveolar consonant
Postalveolar consonant
Alveolo-palatal consonant
Dorsal consonant
Palatal consonant
Labial-palatal consonant 
Velar consonant
Labial-velar consonant
Uvular consonant
Pharyngeal consonant
Epiglottal consonant
Glottal consonant
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In phonetics, a bilabial consonant is a consonant articulated with both lips. The bilabial consonants identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) are:

IPA Description Example
Language Orthography IPA Meaning
Image:Xsampa-m.png bilabial nasal English man [mæn] man
Image:Xsampa-p.png voiceless bilabial plosive English spin [spɪn] spin
Image:Xsampa-b.png voiced bilabial plosive English bed [bɛd] bed

IPA-voiced_bilabial_approximant.png
image:IPA-voiced_bilabial_approximant.png

 voiced bilabial approximant Spanish lobo [loβ̞o] wolf
Image:Xsampa-pslash.png voiceless bilabial fricative Japanese 富士山 (fujisan) [ɸuʝisaɴ] Mount Fuji
Image:Xsampa-B2.png voiced bilabial fricative Dutch waar [βaɾ] authentic
Image:Xsampa-Bslash.png bilabial trill
Image:Xsampa-Oslash.png bilabial click

See also

Example Usage of consonant
SelsiSeaRocks: Me thinks consonant's peppermint sage body lotion is the ONLY lotion that heals my dry skin! At Selsi this week is consonant hand cream!
consonant: I mean, am I that eclectic? Haha.
consonant: What happened to my last.fm recommendations? It keeps playing christian songs. Well, now a French singer who is singing in Arabic?!
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