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Bilabial consonant
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 | ||
| | 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) | [ɸuʥisaɴ] | Mount Fuji | |
| | voiced bilabial fricative | Ewe | ɛʋɛ | [ɛ̀βɛ̀] | Ewe | |
| | bilabial approximant | Spanish | lobo | [loβ̞o] | wolf | |
| | bilabial trill | |||||
| | bilabial click | |||||
Owere Igbo has a six-way contrast among bilabial plosives: . Approximately 0.7% of the world's languages lack bilabial consonants at all; these include Tlingit, Chipewyan, Oneida, and Wichita .
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