bilabial adj : of or relating to or being a speech sound that is articulated using both lips; "bilabial fricatives" n : a consonant that is articulated using both lips; /p/ or /b/ or /w/

English

Adjective

1. Articulated with both lips.

Related terms

• labialized
• labiodental

Noun

1. A speech sound articulated with both lips.

Translations

• Croatian: bilabijal, dvousnenik
• Japanese: (ryōshin'on)

See also

• bilabial

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

Owere Igbo has a six-way contrast among bilabial plosives: [p pʰ ɓ̥ b b̤ ɓ].

See also

• Place of articulation
• List of phonetics topics

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