A voiced bilabial nasal is a type of consonantal sound which has been observed to occur in about 96% of spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is . The bilabial nasal occurs in English, and it is the sound represented by "m" in map and rum. Very few languages (e.g. Wyandot) are known to lack this sound. A small number of languages have been observed to lack independent nasal phonemes altogether, such as Quileute, Makah, and Central Rotokas.
Features
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Features of a voiced bilabial nasal:
Occurrence
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Occurrence of in several languages.
! scope="col" colspan="2"|Language
! scope="col" | Word
! scope="col" | IPA
! scope="col" | Meaning
! scope="col" | Notes
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| colspan="2" | ǃKung || || || 'eat'||
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| colspan="2" | Adyghe || / || || 'moon'||
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| Arabic || Standard || / || ||'kitchens' || See Arabic phonology
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|Armenian || Eastern || / || || 'mother' ||
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| colspan="2" | Assyrian|| / || || 'owner'||
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| colspan="2" | Basque|| || || 'to love'||
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| colspan="2" | Bengali || / || || 'mother' || See Bengali phonology
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| colspan="2" | Bulgarian || / || || 'fog'||
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| colspan="2" | Burushaski || || || 'so many' ||
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| colspan="2" | Catalan || || || 'mine' || See Catalan phonology
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| colspan="2" | Cherokee || / || || 'water' ||
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| colspan="2" | Cantonese || / / || || 'cat' || See Cantonese phonology
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| colspan="2" | Chukchi || || || 'tent' ||
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| colspan="2" | Chuvash || / || || 'my' ||
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| colspan="2" | Czech || || || 'man' || See Czech phonology
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| colspan="2" | Dutch || || || 'mouth'|| See Dutch phonology
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| colspan="2" | Dhivehi || || || 'fish' || See Dhivehi phonology
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| colspan="2" | English || him || || 'him'|| See English phonology
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| colspan="2" | Esperanto || || || 'time' || See Esperanto phonology
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| colspan="2" |Estonian
|maja
|[maja]
|'house'
|See Estonian phonology
|-
| colspan="2" | Filipino || || || 'chicken'|| See Filipino phonology
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| colspan="2" | Finnish|| || || 'I' || See Finnish phonology
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| colspan="2" | French || || || 'to eat'|| See French phonology
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| colspan="2" | Georgian || / || || 'three' ||
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| colspan="2" | German || || || 'mouse' || See Standard German phonology
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| colspan="2" | Greek || / || || 'clump' || See Modern Greek phonology
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| colspan="2" | Gujarati || / || || 'male peacock' || See Gujarati phonology
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| colspan="2" | Hawaiian || || || 'eye' || See Hawaiian phonology
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| Hmong
| White Hmong || / || || 'food' or 'rice'
|-
| colspan="2" | Hindi || / || || 'honey'|| See Hindi-Urdu phonology
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| colspan="2" | Hebrew || / || || 'mother' || See Modern Hebrew phonology
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| colspan="2" | Hungarian || || || 'today' || See Hungarian phonology
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| colspan="2" | Indonesian || || || 'enter' ||
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| colspan="2" | Italian || || || 'mommy' || See Italian phonology
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| colspan="2" | Japanese || / || || 'bean' || See Japanese phonology
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| colspan="2" | Kabardian || / || || 'moon'||
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| colspan="2" | Kagayanen || || || 'older sister' ||
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| colspan="2" | Kazakh || / || || 'ship' || See Kazakh phonology
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| colspan="2" | Ket || || || 'woman' || See Ket language
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| colspan="2" | Khmer || / || || 'Khmer' || See Khmer phonology
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| colspan="2" | Korean || / || || 'village' || See Korean phonology
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| colspan="2" | Kurukh || || || 'cattle' ||
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| colspan="2" | Lak || / || || 'Lak' || See Lak language
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| colspan="2" | Limburgish || || || 'carrot' || Common. Example from the Weert dialect.
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| colspan="2" | Lithuanian || || || 'mom' ||
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| colspan="2" | Macedonian || / || || 'mother' || See Macedonian phonology
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| colspan="2" | Malay || || || 'night' ||
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| colspan="2" |Malayalam || / || ||'shortage'||See Malayalam phonology
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| colspan="2" | Maltese || || || 'water'||
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| colspan="2" | Mandarin || / / || || 'cat' || See Mandarin phonology
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| colspan="2" | Marathi || / || || 'mind' || See Marathi phonology
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| colspan="2" | Mutsun || || || 'night' ||
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| colspan="2" | Nepali || / || || 'mother' ||See Nepali phonology
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| colspan="2" | Norwegian || || || 'mom' || See Norwegian phonology
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| colspan="2" | Ojibwe || / || || 'accuse' || See Ojibwe phonology
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| colspan="2" | Odia || / || || 'mother' ||
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| colspan="2" | Persian || / || ||'mother' || See Persian phonology
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| colspan="2" | Pirahã || || || 'parent' || allophone of
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| colspan="2" | Polish || || || 'mass' || See Polish phonology
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| colspan="2" | Portuguese || || || 'bush' || See Portuguese phonology
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| colspan="2" | Punjabi || / || || 'I' ||
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| colspan="2" | Russian || / || || 'husband' || Contrasts with palatalized version. See Russian phonology
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| colspan="2" | Sanskrit || / || || 'I' || See Sanskrit phonology
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| colspan="2" | Serbo-Croatian || / || || 'my' || See Serbo-Croatian phonology
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| colspan="2" | Slovak || || || 'man' ||
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| colspan="2" | Slovene || || || 'mouse' ||
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| colspan="2" | Spanish || || || 'cabin boy' || See Spanish phonology
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| colspan="2" | Swahili || || || 'trees'||
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| colspan="2" | Swedish || || || 'mom' || See Swedish phonology
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| colspan="2" | Telugu || || || 'cloud' || Occurs as allophone of anuswara when followed by retroflex stops
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| colspan="2" | Thai || / || || 'shabby' || See Thai phonology
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| colspan="2" |Toki Pona || || || 'money' ||
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| colspan="2" | Tsez || / || || 'tongue'||
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| colspan="2" | Turkish || || || 'mine'|| See Turkish phonology
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| colspan="2" | Ukrainian || / || || 'milk' || See Ukrainian phonology
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| colspan="2" | Urdu || / || || 'house' || See Hindi-Urdu phonology
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| colspan="2" | Uyghur || / || || 'I' ||
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| colspan="2" | Uzbek|| || || 'I' ||
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| colspan="2" | Vietnamese || || || 'salt' || See Vietnamese phonology
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| colspan="2" | Welsh || || || 'mother' || See Welsh phonology
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| colspan="2" | West Frisian || || || 'lake' || See West Frisian phonology
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| colspan="2" | Yi || / || || 'bamboo' ||
|-
| Zapotec || Tilquiapan || || || 'animal' ||
|}
Palatalized
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Occurrence of in several languages.
! scope="col" colspan="2"|Language
! scope="col" | Word
! scope="col" | IPA
! scope="col" | Meaning
! scope="col" | Notes
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| colspan="2" | Bulgarian || / || || 'place' || Contrasts with . See Bulgarian phonology.
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| colspan="2" | Irish || || || 'I' || Contrasts with . See Irish phonology.
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| colspan="2" | Kildin Saami || / || || 'sea' || Kildin Saami contrasts varieties of bilabial nasals in voicedness, length and palatalization. || || || 'flour' || Contrasts with . || || || 'mist' || Contrasts with . See Lithuanian phonology
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| colspan="2" | Marshallese || || || 'four' || Contrasts with . || / || || 'tent' || rowspan=2 |Contrasts with . || || || 'peninsula' || Contrasts with . || || 'sleep' || Contrasts with and .
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| colspan="2" | Irish || || || 'if' || Contrasts with . See Irish phonology.
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| colspan="2" | Marshallese