Bilabial

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Bilabial consonant
Articulation of a bilabial stop sound

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
[ ], [ ] 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

  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ Christian Ebert: Phonetics & Phonology. Articulatory Phonetics. Bielefeld University. Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies. WS 2005/2006 (Clark & ​​Yallop, Chapter 2 & 6)
  3. ^ 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