Bilabial trill - Pirahã

The bilabial trill is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ʙ, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is B\. Bilabial trill - Features. Features of the bilabial trill: Its manner of articulation is trill, which means it is produced by vibrations of the articulators. In most instances, it is only found as the trilled release of a prenasa ...

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• Bilabial trill - Features
• Bilabial trill - In English
• Bilabial trill - In other languages
• Bilabial trill - Amuzgo
• Bilabial trill - Baka
• Bilabial trill - Northwest Caucasian languages
• Bilabial trill - Pirahã
• Bilabial trill - Yi

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The bilabial trill exists as a phoneme in a few languages. In most of the languages where it occurs, it occurs only as a prenasalised bilabial stop with trilled release, [mbʙ]. This developed historically from a prenasalized stop before a relatively high back vowel, such as [mbu], in all but a couple languages, and are usually still limited to such environments. An example is the Kele word [mbʙuen] "its fruit". The known exceptions to this pattern are in Nias ...

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Bilabial trill, Bilabial trill - Features, Bilabial trill - In English, Bilabial trill - In other languages, Bilabial trill - Amuzgo, Bilabial trill - Baka, Bilabial trill - Northwest Caucasian languages, Bilabial trill - Pirahã, Bilabial trill - Yi

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