Voiced bilabial vibrant
IPA mark | ʙ |
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IPA number | 121 |
IPA character description | Latin small capital B |
Unicode | U + 0299 |
HTML (dec.) | & # 665; |
X-SAMPA |
B\
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Kirshenbaum |
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ʙa ʔaʙa ]
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The voiced bilabial vibrant is an oral sound that occurs in only a few human languages .
Occurrence
language | word | IPA | meaning | Remarks | |
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Cameroon : | |||||
Ngwe | [àʙɨ́ ́] | 'Ash' | in Lebang dialect | ||
Com | [ʙ̥ɨmɨ] | 'believe' | |||
New Guinea : | |||||
Kele | [ m ʙulim] | 'Face' | |||
titanium | [ m ʙutukei] | 'Wooden plate' | |||
Amazonia : | |||||
Pirahã | kaoáí b ogi | [kàò̯áí̯ʙòˈɡì] | 'bad ghost' | Allophone from / b / before / o / | |
Wari ' | [t͡ʙ̥ot͡ʙ̥oweʔ] | 'Chicken' |
See also
Pulmonary consonants according to IPA (2005) |
bilabial |
labio- dental |
dental | alveolar |
post- alveolar |
retroflex | palatal | velar | uvular |
phase- ryngal |
glottal | ||||||||||||
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stl. | sth. | stl. | sth. | stl. | sth. | stl. | sth. | stl. | sth. | stl. | sth. | stl. | sth. | stl. | sth. | stl. | sth. | stl. | sth. | stl. | sth. | ||
Plosives | p | b | t | d | ʈ | ɖ | c | ɟ | k | ɡ | q | ɢ | ʔ | ||||||||||
Nasals | m | ɱ | n | ɳ | ɲ | ŋ | ɴ | ||||||||||||||||
Vibrants | ʙ | r | ʀ | ||||||||||||||||||||
Taps / flaps | ⱱ | ɾ | ɽ | ||||||||||||||||||||
Fricatives | ɸ | β | f | v | θ | ð | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | ʂ | ʐ | ç | ʝ | x | ɣ | χ | ʁ | H | ʕ | H | ɦ | |
lateral fricatives | ɬ | ɮ | |||||||||||||||||||||
Approximants | ʋ | ɹ | ɻ | j | w ¹ | ||||||||||||||||||
lateral approximants | l | ɭ | ʎ | ʟ | |||||||||||||||||||
¹ The labialised variant [ w ] was inserted here as a voiced velar approximant ( half vowel ) instead of the non-labialised variant [ ɰ ]. |