A voiced bilabial plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages. It is familiar to English-speakers as the "b" sound in "obey". The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is .

Features

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Features of a voiced bilabial stop:

Occurrence

{| class="wikitable"

|+ Occurrence of in several languages

! colspan="2" scope="col" | Language

! scope="col" | Word

! scope="col" | IPA

! scope="col" | Meaning

! scope="col" | Notes

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| colspan="2" | Adyghe || / |||| 'nine'||

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| colspan="2" | Albanian || || || 'bee'||

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| Arabic ||Standard|| / || || 'door' || See Arabic phonology

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| colspan="2" | Assyrian|| || ]|| 'father'||

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| Armenian|| Eastern|| / || ||'kind' ||

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| colspan="2" | Basque || || || 'hot' ||

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| colspan="2" | Bengali || / || || 'say!' || Contrasts with aspirated form. See Bengali phonology

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| colspan="2" | Catalan || || || 'beautiful' || See Catalan phonology

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| colspan="2" | Chechen || / || || 'wolf' ||

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| colspan="2" | Czech || || || 'boot' || See Czech phonology

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| Danish || Standard || || || 'runner' || Only partially voiced; possible allophone of in the intervocalic position. More often voiceless . See Danish phonology

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| colspan="2" | Dutch || || || 'farmer'|| See Dutch phonology

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| colspan="2" | English || aback || || 'aback'|| See English phonology

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| colspan="2" | Esperanto || || || 'war' || See Esperanto phonology

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| colspan="2" | Filipino || || || 'bone' ||

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| colspan="2" | French || || || 'mud'|| See French phonology

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| colspan="2" | Georgian || / ||||'child'||

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| colspan="2" | German || || || 'but' || See Standard German phonology

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| colspan="2" | Greek || / bócha || || 'reek' || See Modern Greek phonology

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| colspan="2" | Gujarati || / |||| 'goat'|| See Gujarati phonology

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| colspan="2" | Hebrew || / || || 'house'|| See Modern Hebrew phonology

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| rowspan="2" | Hindustani

| Hindi

| /

| rowspan=2 |

| rowspan=2 | 'hair'

| rowspan=2 | Contrasts with aspirated version . See Hindi-Urdu phonology

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| Urdu

| /

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| colspan="2" | Hungarian || || || 'baby' || See Hungarian phonology

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| colspan="2" | Italian || || || 'rage'|| See Italian phonology

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| colspan="2" | Japanese || / || || '(one's) turn'|| See Japanese phonology

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| colspan="2" | Kabardian || /bg"uy |||| 'nine'||

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| colspan="2" | Korean || / || || 'roof' || See Korean phonology

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| rowspan="3" |Kurdish

|Northern

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| rowspan="3" |'father'

| rowspan="3" |See Kurdish phonology

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|Central

|/

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|Southern

|/

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| colspan="2" | Luxembourgish || || || 'blown' || More often voiceless . See Luxembourgish phonology

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| colspan="2" | Macedonian || / || || 'beautiful' || See Macedonian phonology

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| colspan="2" | Malay || || || 'new'||

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| colspan="2" |Malayalam

|ബലം/balam

|

|'strength'

|See Malayalam phonology

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| colspan="2" | Maltese || || || 'threshold'||

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| colspan="2" | Marathi || / |||| 'potato'|| See Marathi phonology

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| colspan="2" | Nepali || / |||| 'path'|| See Nepali phonology

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| colspan="2" | Norwegian || || || 'bonfire'|| See Norwegian phonology

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| colspan="2" | Odia || / || || 'twelve' || Contrasts with aspirated form.

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| colspan="2" | Persian || / xub|||| 'good'|| See Persian phonology

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| colspan="2" | Pirahã || || ||'parent'||

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| colspan="2" | Polish || || || 'bass'|| See Polish phonology

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| colspan="2" | Portuguese || || || 'I strike'|| See Portuguese phonology

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| colspan="2" | Punjabi ||/||||'cat'||

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| colspan="2" | Romanian|| || || 'bull'|| See Romanian phonology.

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| colspan="2" | Russian || / || || 'fish'|| Contrasts with palatalized form. See Russian phonology

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|colspan=2| Serbo-Croatian || / || || 'being' || See Serbo-Croatian phonology

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| colspan="2" | Slovak || || || 'to be'||

|-

| colspan="2" |Slovene

|

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|'to be'

|

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| colspan="2" |Southern Min

| /

|

|'Fujian province'

|Only in colloquial speech.

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| colspan="2" | Spanish || || || 'to invest' || See Spanish phonology

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| colspan="2" | Swedish || || || 'good' || May be an approximant in casual speech. See Swedish phonology

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| colspan="2" | Telugu || || || 'school' || Contrasts with aspirated form. Aspirated form is articulated as breathy consonant.

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| colspan="2" |Thai

| /

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| 'therapy'

| See Thai phonology

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| colspan="2" | Turkish || || || 'cloud'|| See Turkish phonology

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| colspan="2"| Tyap || || || 'to come' ||

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| colspan="2" | Ukrainian || / || || 'brother'|| See Ukrainian phonology

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| colspan="2" |Welsh

|

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| 'son'

| See Welsh phonology

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| colspan="2" | West Frisian|| || || 'tray'||

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| colspan="2" |Wu

| /

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|'skin'

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| colspan="2" |Xiang

| /

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|'to float'

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| colspan="2" | Yi || / || || 'mountain'||

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| Zapotec|| Tilquiapan|| || || 'few'||

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See also

  • Betacism
  • List of phonetics topics

Notes

References