Voiced bilabial trill | |||
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ʙ | |||
IPA Number | 121 | ||
Encoding | |||
Entity (decimal) | ʙ | ||
Unicode (hex) | U+0299 | ||
X-SAMPA | B\ | ||
Braille | ![]() ![]() | ||
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Audio sample | |||
The 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 ⟨ʙ⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is B\
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Features of the voiced bilabial trill:
IPA | Description |
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ʙ | Voiced bilabial trill |
ᵐʙ | Prenasalized voiced bilabial trill |
Affiliation | Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
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Bantoid | Medumba | mʙʉ | [mʙʉ́][citation needed] | 'dog' | ||
Ngwe | Lebang dialect | [àʙɨ́ ́] | 'ash' | |||
Mura | Pirahã | kaoáíbogi | [kàò̯áí̯ʙòˈɡì] | 'evil spirit' | Allophone of /b/ before /o/ | |
Qiangic | Lizu[1][2] | TU, | [tʙ̩˥˩] | 'bean' | Syllabic; allophone of /u/ after initial /pʰ, p, b, tʰ, t, d/.[1] | |
Pumi[2] | biiv | [pʙ̩˥] | 'to dig' | Syllabic; allophone of /ə/ after /pʰ, p, b, tʰ, t, d/. | ||
Uralic | Komi-Permyak[3] | Бунгаг | [ʙuŋgag] | 'dung beetle' | Generally paralinguistic. This is the only true word it is found in. | |
Kwomtari[4] | ||||||
Sko[4] | ||||||
Kilmeri language[4] |
The Knorkator song "[Buchstabe]" (the actual title is a glyph) on the 1999 album Hasenchartbreaker uses a similar sound to replace "br" in a number of German words (e.g. [ˈʙaːtkaɐ̯tɔfəln] for Bratkartoffeln).
Affiliation | Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
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Oceanic | Kele[5][6] | [ᵐʙulim] | 'face' | And other languages of the Admiralty Islands | ||
Titan[5][6] | [ᵐʙutukei] | 'wooden plate' | ||||
Unua[7] | [ᵐʙue] | 'pig' | ||||
Ahamb[8] | [nãᵐʙwas][8] | 'pig' | Phonemic; contrasts between /ᵐʙ/ and /ʙ̥/.[8] |
Affiliation | Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
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Naga | Sangtam | [t͡ʙàŋ][9] | 'needle' | Phonemic as /t͡ʙ/, contrasts with /t͡ʙ̥ʰ/.[9] | ||
Qiangic | Namuyi[10] | [t͡ʙ̩˨][10] | 'to slaughter' | Phonemic according to Pavlík (2017) occurring before /u/ or as a syllabic consonant. [ʙ] is classified as an allophone of /u/ following a /p/, /b/, /t/ or /d/ in the phonemic analysis of Huáng (1992:673–674), and Yǐn (2016).[11] No bilabial trills are present in the phonemic analysis of Nishida (2013). | ||
[d͡ʙu˥˨][10] | 'wild' | |||||
[p͡ʙ̩][10] | 'to deliver'. | |||||
[b͡ʙuda][10] | surname |
In many of the languages in which the bilabial trill occurs, it occurs only as part of a prenasalized bilabial stop with trilled release, [mbʙ]. That developed historically from a prenasalized stop before a relatively high back vowel like [mbu]. In such instances, the sounds are usually still limited to the environment of a following [u]. However, the trills in Mangbetu may precede any vowel and are sometimes preceded by only a nasal.