Bilabial 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
		Langu-age	Ortho-graphy	IPA	Mea- ning
	bilabial nasal	English	man	[mæn]	man
	voiceless bilabial plosive	English	spin	[spɪn]	spin
	voiced bilabial plosive	English	bed	[bɛd]	bed
	voiceless bilabial fricative	Japanese	富士山 (fujisan)	[ɸuʥ isaɴ]	Mount Fuji
	voiced bilabial fricative	Ewe	ɛʋɛ	[ɛ?βɛ?]	Ewe
	bilabial approximant	Spanish	lobo	[loβ̞o]	wolf
	bilabial trill
	bilabial click

Owere Igbo has a six-way contrast among bilabial plosives: [p pʰ ɓ̥ b b̤ ɓ]. Approximately 0.7% of the world's languages lack bilabial consonants at all; these include Tlingit, Chipewyan, Oneida, and Wichita ^[1].

See also

• Place of articulation
• List of phonetics topics

Consonants

This table contains phonetic information in IPA, which may not display correctly in some browsers.
Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right represents a voiced consonant. Shaded areas denote pulmonic articulations judged to be impossible.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilabial_consonant

Published - November 2008