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Voiced Bilabial

A bilabial consonant or, for the sake of brevity, bilabial means, articulatory phonetics , a consonant labial whose place of articulation is located at the mouth and is carried by bringing together the upper and lower lips.

The French has the bilabial bilabials API

The International Phonetic Alphabet identifies the following bilabial

API Description Example
Language Spelling API Meaning
p Bilabial occlusive deaf French p Epe
b Voiced bilabial occlusive English ed b True
Voiced bilabial fricative Spanish b lo o You
Bilabial click Khoisan

Labialization is denoted using the symbol superscript See also

Points of articulation
Labial Bilabial Labio-dental
Coronal
( apical , laminal )
Lingual-labial Dental Alveolar Post-alveolar alveolo-palatal retroflex
Dorsal Palatal velar Labio-velar Bellwort
Pharyngeal / Glottal Pharyngeal epiglottal Glottal
Multiple Labio-palatal Labial-velar Post-alveolar-velar
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