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The voiced bilabial nasal is a type of
Features of the voiced bilabial nasal:
consonant
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al sound which has been observed to occur in about 96% of spoken language
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s. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet
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that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is m. The bilabial nasal occurs in English, and it is the sound represented by "m" in ''map'' and ''rum''. Very few languages (e.g. Wyandot) are known to lack this sound. A small number of languages have been observed to lack independent nasal phonemes altogether, such as Quileute, Makah, and Central Rotokas.
Features
Features of the voiced bilabial nasal:
Varieties
Occurrence
Palatalized
Velarized
See also
*List of phonetics topics
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* Acoustic phonetics
* Active articulator
* Affricate
* Airstream mechanism
* Alexander John Ellis
* Alexander Melville Bell
* Alfred C. Gimson
* Allophone
* Alveolar approximant ()
* Alveolar click ()
* Alveolar consonant
* Alveolar e ...
Notes
References
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* * * {{IPA navigation Bilabial consonants Pulmonic consonants Nasal consonants Labial–coronal consonants Voiced consonants