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:

{|border="1px" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" style="border-collapse:collapse" |-style="background:gray; color:white; font-weight:bold; text-align:center" ! rowspan="2" | IPA ! rowspan="2" | Description ! colspan="4" | Example |-style="background:gray; color:white; font-weight:bold; text-align:center" | Language | Orthography | IPA | Meaning |- | style="text-align:center" | | bilabial nasal | English | man | [mæn] | man |- | style="text-align:center" | | voiceless bilabial plosive | English | spin | [spɪn] | Spin |- | style="text-align:center" | | voiced bilabial plosive | English | bed | [bɛd] | bed |- | style="text-align:center" | | voiceless bilabial fricative | Japanese | 富士山 (fujisan) | [ɸuʥisaɴ] | Mount Fuji |- | style="text-align:center" | | voiced bilabial fricative | Ewe | ɛʋɛ | [ɛ̀βɛ̀] | Ewe |- | style="text-align:center" | | bilabial approximant | Spanish | lobo | [loβ̞o] | wolf |- | style="text-align:center" | | bilabial trill | | | | |- | style="text-align:center" | | bilabial click | |

Owere Igbo has a six-way contrast among bilabial plosives: .

Bilabial consonant

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