A voiced bilabial trill is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents the sound is , a small capital letter b.
Features
Features of a voiced bilabial trill:
Occurrence
Plain
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Occurrences of in various languages
!colspan=2| Language
! Word
! IPA
! Meaning
! Notes
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| colspan="2" | Medumba
| colspan=2 |
| 'dog'
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| Ngwe
| Lebang dialect
| colspan="2" |
| 'ash'
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|-
| colspan=2| Dongo
| bbo̍ || || 'two' || Phonemic. Contrasts with .
|-
| colspan="2" | Pirahã
|
|
| 'evil spirit'
| Allophone of before
|-
| colspan="2" | Damin
| pr2уuu
|
| 'branch'
|Can either be single pr or doubled pr2 depending on the word
|-
| colspan="2" | Komi-Permyak
| colspan=2|
| 'dung beetle'
|Generally paralinguistic. Apart from interjections, is the only lexeme this sound is found in.
|-
| colspan="2" | Kilmeri
|
|
| 'blossom'
|
|-
| colspan=2 | Kwomtari
| colspan=2 |
| 'to hit'
|
|-
| colspan=2 | Sko
| colspan="2" |
| 'face'
| And other languages of the Admiralty Islands
|-
| colspan="2" | Titan
| colspan="2" |
| 'pig'
|
|-
| colspan="2" | Ahamb
| colspan="2" |
| 'pig'
| Phonemic; contrasts between and .
|-
| colspan="2" |Kilmeri
| colspan="2" |
| 'hip joint'
| Word-medial realization of phonemic , contrasts with aspirated .
|-
|Lizu
|
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|'bean'
|Syllabic; allophone of after initial .
|
| Phonemic according to , occurring before or as a syllabic consonant; the trill components may be voiceless when preceded by voiceless plosives. No bilabial trills are present in the phonemic analysis of .
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| and are sometimes preceded by only a nasal.
See also
- Index of phonetics articles
- Voiceless bilabial trill
Notes
References
External links
- Oro Win recordings