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
Features of a voiced bilabial stop:
Occurrence + Occurrence of in several languages Language Word IPA Meaning Notes Adyghe / 'nine' Albanian 'bee' Arabic Standard / 'door' See Arabic phonology Assyrian ] 'father' Armenian Eastern / 'kind' Basque 'hot' Bengali / 'say!' Contrasts with aspirated form. See Bengali phonologyBreton 'bread' Catalan Most dialects 'beautiful' See Catalan phonology 'old' Betacism (found in Northern, North-Western and Central Catalan and in Central Valencian). Chechen / 'wolf' Czech 'bubble' See Czech phonology Danish Standard 'runner' Only partially voiced; possible allophone of in the intervocalic position. More often voiceless . See Danish phonology Dutch 'farmer' See Dutch phonology English aback 'aback' See English phonology Esperanto 'war' See Esperanto phonology Filipino 'bone' French 'mud' See French phonology Georgian / 'child' German 'but' See Standard German phonology Greek / bócha 'reek' See Modern Greek phonology Gujarati / 'goat' See Gujarati phonology Hebrew / 'house' See Modern Hebrew phonology Hindustani Hindi / 'hair' Contrasts with aspirated version . See Hindi-Urdu phonology Urdu / Hungarian 'baby' See Hungarian phonology Italian 'rage' See Italian phonology Japanese / '(one's) turn' See Japanese phonology Kabardian /bg"uy 'nine' Korean / 'roof' See Korean phonologyKurdishNorthern'father'See Kurdish phonologyCentral/Southern/ Luxembourgish 'blown' More often voiceless . See Luxembourgish phonology Macedonian / 'beautiful' See Macedonian phonology Malay 'new'Malayalamബലം/balam'strength'See Malayalam phonology Maltese 'threshold' Marathi / 'potato' See Marathi phonology Nepali / 'path' See Nepali phonology Norwegian 'bonfire' See Norwegian phonology Odia / 'twelve' Contrasts with aspirated form. Persian / xub 'good' See Persian phonology Pirahã 'parent' Polish 'bass' See Polish phonology Portuguese 'I strike' See Portuguese phonology Punjabi /'cat' RomanianDEX Online : 'bull' See Romanian phonology. Russian / 'fish' Contrasts with palatalized form. See Russian phonology Serbo-Croatian / 'being' See Serbo-Croatian phonology Slovak 'to be' Slovene'to be'Southern Min / 'Fujian province'Only in colloquial speech. Spanish 'to invest' See Spanish phonology Swedish 'good' May be an approximant in casual speech. See Swedish phonology Telugu 'school' Contrasts with aspirated form. Aspirated form is articulated as breathy consonant.Thai / 'therapy' See Thai phonology Turkish 'cloud' See Turkish phonology Tyap 'to come' Ukrainian / 'brother' See Ukrainian phonologyWelsh 'son' See Welsh phonology West Frisian 'tray'Wu / 'skin'Xiang / 'to float' Yi / 'mountain' Zapotec Tilquiapan 'few'
See also Betacism List of phonetics topics
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