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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:

IPA Description Example
Language Orthography IPA Meaning
Image:Xsampa-m.png bilabial nasal English man ['æn] man
Image:Xsampa-p.png voiceless bilabial plosive English spin [spɪn] spin
Image:Xsampa-b.png voiced bilabial plosive English bed [bɛd] bed
Image:Xsampa-pslash.png voiceless bilabial fricative Japanese 富士山 (fujisan) [ɸuʝisaɴ] Mount Fuji
Image:Xsampa-B2.png voiced bilabial fricative Dutch waar [β] authentic
voiced bilabial approximant Spanish lobo [loβ̞o] wolf
Image:Xsampa-Bslash.png bilabial trill
Image:Xsampa-Oslash.png bilabial click

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