| Ipa Number: | 184 413 |
| Ipa Symbol: | ⱱ̟ |
| Ipa Symbol2: | b̆ |
| Imagefile: | IPA Unicode 0x2C71+0x031F.svg |
| Decimal1: | 11377 |
| Decimal2: | 799 |
The voiced bilabial flap is an uncommon non-rhotic flap. It is usually, and perhaps always, an allophone of the labiodental flap, though it is the preferred allophone in a minority of languages such as Banda and some of its neighbors.
In Mono, the sound has been described as follows:And, for allophony between the bilabial and labiodental flap,
In the literature it has often been transcribed by a w modified by the extra-short diacritic, (IPA|w̆).
(IPA|ⱳ) is an unofficial symbol for this sound. It is a conflation between (IPA|ⱱ) and (IPA|w).[1]
In 2005 the International Phonetic Association adopted the right hook v symbol to represent the labiodental flap. Since then, the received transcription of the bilabial flap involves employing the labiodental flap symbol modified by an advanced diacritic: (IPA|ⱱ̟). Since flaps are similar to brief stops, it could alternatively be transcribed as (IPA|b̆).
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mono | vwa | pronounced as /[ⱱ̟a]/ | 'send' | Contrasts with pronounced as //v// and pronounced as //w//. In free variation with labiodental flap | ||
| Lengola[2] | ||||||
| Mambay[3] | vbwah[4] | pronounced as /[ⱱ̟wâˁħ]/ | 'fog' | |||
| Chinese | Taiwanese Hakka Sixian[5] | 苶苶仔 | [kʰʲoʲ˥ ŋʲap˨ ŋʲaⱱ̟˨ ɛ˥˧] | tired | ||
pronounced as /navigation/