A voiceless bilabial nasal is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨⟩, a combination of the letter for the voiced bilabial nasal and a diacritic indicating voicelessness.
Features
Features of a voiceless bilabial nasal:
Occurrence Language Word IPA Meaning NotesAleut'white'Voiced approximants and nasals may be partly devoiced in contact with a voiceless consonant and at the end of a word.Alutiiq'bite it repeatedly'Contrasts with voiced . Burmese / 'false' Central Alaskan Yup'ik 'to the servant' EnglishRPstop me[]stop me Estonian 'cow' Word-final allophone of after . See Estonian phonology French 'rythm' Pausal allophone of after voiceless consonants. See French phonology Hmong White Hmong / 'Hmong' Contrasts with voiced . In Green Mong, it has merged with /m/. Icelandic 'hero' Allophone of before fortis plosives. Minimally contrastive with /m/ before voiced plosives: 'to comb'. See Icelandic phonology Jalapa Mazatec 'black' Contrasts with a voiced and a laryngealized bilabial nasal. Kildin Sami / 'strap' Muscogee 'bell' Allophone of before when in the same syllable.Northern Sámi čáihmi 'freckle' Ukrainian / 'rhythm' Word-final allophone of after voiceless consonants. See Ukrainian phonology Washo 'he's hiding' Welsh 'my head' Occurs as the nasal mutation of . Often realised as a sequence consisting of a voiced nasal and a variably voiced glottal continuant. See Welsh phonology Xumi Lower 'medicine' Contrasts with the voiced . Upper Yi 'name'
See also Index of phonetics articles Voiced bilabial nasal
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