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In phonetics, a bilabial consonant is a consonant articulated with both lips. The bilabial consonants identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) are:

IPA Description Example
Language Orthography IPA Meaning
bilabial nasal English man man
voiceless bilabial plosive English spin spin
voiced bilabial plosive English bed bed
voiceless bilabial fricative Japanese 富士山 (fujisan) Mount Fujimarker
voiced bilabial fricative Ewe ɛʋɛ Ewe
bilabial approximant Spanish lobo wolf
bilabial trill
bilabial click


Owere Igbo has a six-way contrast among bilabial plosives: . Approximately 0.7% of the world's languages lack bilabial consonants at all; these include Tlingit, Chipewyan, Oneida, and Wichita .

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