A voiced bilabial implosive 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 voiced bilabial implosive:

Occurrence

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! colspan="2" | Language !! Word !! IPA !! Meaning !! Notes

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| colspan="2" | Akatek || || || 'the walking (thing)' ||

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| colspan="2" | Balanta-Ganja || ? || || 'heron' || Possible allophone for .

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| colspan="2" | Ega || colspan="2" align="center" | || 'send away' ||

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| English || Southern American || body || || 'body' || Possible realization of word-initial . || <br/> || || 'Fulbe person' (g.) ||

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| colspan="2" | Goemai || || || 'to fetch' ||

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| colspan="2" | Hausa || / || || 'quarreling' ||

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| colspan="2" | Jamaican Patois || || || 'beat' || Allophone of in the onset of prominent syllables.

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| colspan="2" | Kalabari || || || 'kill' ||

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| colspan="2" | Khmer || / || || noun: 'France'<br />adjective: 'French' || See Khmer phonology

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| colspan="2" | Konso || || || 'to hide' ||

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| colspan="2" | Kwaza || || || 'put [the] hat on!' ||

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| colspan="2" | Latundê || colspan="2" align="center" | || '(they) are two' || One of the possible realisations of . || || || 'at' ||

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| Punjabi || Dialectal || / || || 'goat' ||

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| colspan="2' | Paumarí || || || 'old' ||

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| colspan="2" | Saraiki || || || rowspan="2" | 'child' ||

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| colspan="2" | Sindhi || || ||

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| colspan="2" | Serer || / || || 'to crawl' || Contrasts .

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| colspan="2" |Southern Nambikwara || colspan="2" align="center" | || 'ask excuse' || One of the possible realisations of . || || || 'to talk' || Contrasts phonemically with palatalized implosive, .

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| colspan="2" | Tukang Besi || colspan=2 align=center | || 'previous' ||

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| colspan="2" | Vietnamese || || || 'you' || See Vietnamese phonology

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| colspan="2" | Standard Zhuang || || || 'world' ||

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| colspan="2" | Zulu || || || 'my father' ||

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See also

  • Index of phonetics articles
  • Voiceless bilabial implosive
  • B̤ē

Notes

References