ADJECTIVE
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of or relating to or being a speech sound that is articulated using both lips
bilabial fricatives
NOUN
- a consonant that is articulated using both lips; /p/ or /b/ or /w/
How To Use bilabial In A Sentence
- I am now moving my lips, which contains four bilabial consonants, is another example: the moment you say it, it becomes true.
- As I've remarked before on my blog, Etruscan p consistently shows lenition to a bilabial fricative /ɸ/ whenever it neighbours the high rounded back vowel u. Archive 2009-10-01
- Thai speakers make a three way distinction for bilabials and alveolars.
- After Lat. i the v disappeared (rivus-um, Span. rio), but in most other cases it remained as a bilabial spirant euqal in balue to originally intervocalic b (novus-um, Span. nuevo). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
- Point is, if the model is accurate it's like describing how sounds are articulated phonetically, how the/b/sound is a voiced bilabial plosive. Bukiet on Brooklyn Books
- bilabial fricatives
- Now, this is a matter of detail perhaps but worth noting since p has occasionally eroded to f in Etruscan, particularly next to tautosyllabic u, and this sort of lenition can only rationally happen with a bilabial phoneme, not a labiodental one. Some observations concerning Woodard's The Ancient Languages of Europe
- In Arabic, there is no "p" sound (voiceless bilabial plosive), so it is often replaced with a "b" sound (voiced bilabial plosive). Election Central | Talking Points Memo | House Votes Overwhelmingly To Condemn MoveOn; Large Majority Of Dems Votes "Aye"
- There is a small error in the New York Times article on the addition of a symbol for the labiodental flap to the International Phonetic Alphabet that Geoff mentioned: the bilabial trill does not still await its day.
- In my sole view, if the letter phi is already being used to write a bilabial fricative (which sounds like "f"), then it's conceivable to me that initial /w-/ in Etruscan (written as "v") could have evolved into a bilabial approximant or voiced fricative in Rhaetic and subsequently also be represented by the same letter for its voiceless "f"-like counterpart. Rhaetic inscriptions Schum PU 1 and Schum CE 1
