Bilabial
A Bilabial (German double labial , double lip volume , Beidlippenlaut ) is a both lips of spoken sound .
The following sounds are bilabial:
IPA | description | example |
---|---|---|
[ b ] | voiced bilabial plosive | German B a |
[ p ] | voiceless bilabial plosive | German P a |
[ m ] | voiced bilabial nasal | German M aut |
[ β ] | voiced bilabial fricative | Spanish Cu b a |
[ ɸ ] | voiceless bilabial fricative | jap. 富士山 ( F ujisan) |
[ ʙ ] | voiced bilabial vibrant | (in some Papuan languages of New Guinea ) |
[ ʘ ] | bilabial click | (in some Khoisan languages ) |
[ w ] | voiced labiovelar (bilabial-velar) approximant |
engl. w ine, w ater bair. W ater / w / in German words at mhd. Time |
[ u̯ ], [ w̯ ] 1 | voiced bilabial approximant | Upper Sorbian ł a w rjenco w y w ěnc |
1 The IPA does not have its own characters for this sound, hence the [ u ] in conjunction with the Unsilbigkeitszeichen [ ̯ used] or, depending on the language that describes also the sign of a pink seal [ .beta. ] , strictly speaking, with the Approximationszeichen [ ˕ ]

Sagittal plane of the human oral cavity , oro pharynx and Laryno pharynx . Places of articulation (active and passive): 1 exolabial (outer part of the lip) , 2 endolabial (inner part of the lip) , 3 dental (teeth), 4 alveolar (front part of the dental dam) , 5 postalveolar (rear part of the dental dam and a little behind), 6 prepalatal (front part of the hard palate), 7 palatal (hard palate), 8 velar (soft palate), 9 uvular (also postvelar; uvula), 10 pharyngeal (pharynx), 11 glottal (also laryngeal; vocal cords) , 12 epiglottal (epiglottis), 13 radical (tongue root), 14 posterodorsal (rear part of the tongue), 15 anterodorsal (front part of the tongue), 16 laminal (tongue leaf ), 17 apical (tongue tip), 18 sublaminal (also subapical; underside the tongue)
See also
literature
- John Clark; Collin Yallop; Janet Fletcher: An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology. 3rd edition. Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics, Wiley-Blackwell, 2006
- T. Alan Hall: Phonology: An Introduction. De Gruyter Study Book, de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2000, ISBN 3-1101-5641-5
- Peter Ladefoged ; Ian Maddieson: The Sounds of the World's Languages. Blackwell, Oxford 1996, ISBN 0-631-19814-8 .
Web links
Wiktionary: Bilabial - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Individual evidence
- ^ Christian Ebert: Phonetics & Phonology. Articulatory Phonetics. (Hall, Chapters 1.1 - 1.5; Clark & Yallop, Chapters 2 & 3) Bielefeld University. Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies. WS 2005/2006
- ^ Christian Ebert: Phonetics & Phonology. Articulatory Phonetics. Bielefeld University. Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies. WS 2005/2006 (Clark & Yallop, Chapter 2 & 6)
- ^ Christian Ebert: Phonetics & Phonology. Articulatory Phonetics. (Hall, Chapters 1.1 - 1.5; Clark & Yallop, Chapters 2 & 3) Exercises & Solutions, Bielefeld University. Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies. WS 2005/2006