Bilabial consonant
In phonetics, a bilabial consonant is a labial consonant articulated with both lips.Transcription
The bilabial consonants identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet are:
Owere Igbo has a six-way contrast among bilabial stops:. Approximately 0.7% of the world's languages lack bilabial consonants altogether, including Tlingit, Chipewyan, Oneida, and Wichita.
The extensions to the IPA also define a for striking the lips together. A lip-smack in the non-percussive sense of the lips noisily parting would be.
The IPA chart shades out bilabial lateral consonants, which is sometimes read as indicating that such sounds are not possible. The fricatives and are often lateral, but no language makes a distinction for centrality so the allophony is not noticeable.Citations
