A bilabial ejective is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is .
Features
Features of a bilabial ejective stop:
Occurrence
In addition to the languages listed below, this sound is also a common phonological feature of the Ethiopian linguistic area, especially Ethiopian Semitic languages.
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan=2| Language
! Word
! IPA
! Meaning
! Notes
|-
|colspan=2| Adyghe
| / /
|align=center|
| 'thin'
|
|-
|colspan=2| Amharic
| /
|align=center|
| 'Peter'
|
|-
| Armenian
| Yerevan dialect
| /
|align=center|
| 'tail'
| Corresponds to tenuis in other Eastern dialects
|-
|colspan=2| Chechen
| / /
|align=center|
| 'finger'
|
|-
|colspan=2| Damin
| p'ngu
|align=center|
| 'after'
| Varies with a "bilabial spurt" [ʘ↑]
|-
| colspan="2" | Ganza
|colspan=2 align=center|
| 'gathering'
|
|-
| colspan=2 | Georgian
| /
|align=center|
| 'butterfly'
|
|-
|colspan=2| Hadza
|
|align=center|
| 'to lift something heavy'
| (mimetic)
|-
|colspan=2| Haida
|
|align=center|
| 'to break'
| (mimetic)
|-
|colspan=2| Halkomelem
|
|align=center|
| 'white'
|
|-
|colspan=2| Kabardian
| / /
|align=center|
| 'mean'
|
|-
|colspan=2| Kunigami
|
|align=center|
| 'grandmother'
|
|-
|Lushootseed
|Northern Lushootseed
|p̓uay̓
|
|'flounder'
|
|-
|colspan=2| Nez Perce
|
|align=center|
| 'hole'
|
|-
||Ossetian
|Iron
| /
|align=center|
|'cook'
|
|-
|colspan=2| Quechua
|
|align=center|
| 'clothes'
|
|-
|colspan=2| Ubykh
| wıp'<nowiki/>ts'e
|
| 'your name'
| See Ubykh phonology
|-
| colspan="2" |Yurok
|
|
|'leaves'
|
|}
See also
- Index of phonetics articles