| Ipa Symbol: | ʙ |
| Ipa Number: | 121 |
| Decimal: | 665 |
| Xsampa: | B\ |
| Kirshenbaum: | b<trl> |
| Braille2: | b |
| Imagefile: | Bilabial trill (vector).svg |
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 (IPA|ʙ), a small capital version of the Latin letter b, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is B\.
Features of the voiced bilabial trill: In most instances, it is only found as the trilled release of a prenasalized stop.
| IPA | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| pronounced as /ʙ/ | Voiced bilabial trill | |
| pronounced as /ᵐʙ/ | Prenasalized voiced bilabial trill |
| Bantoid | Medumba | mpronounced as /ʙ/ʉ | pronounced as /[mʙʉ́]/ | 'dog' | |||
| Ngwe | Lebang dialect | pronounced as /[àʙɨ́ ́]/ | 'ash' | ||||
| Mura | Pirahã | kaoáí'''b'''ogi | pronounced as /[kàò̯áí̯ʙòˈɡì]/ | 'evil spirit' | Allophone of pronounced as //b// before pronounced as //o// | ||
| ʔíbogi | 'milk' | ||||||
| Uralic | Komi-Permyak[1] | Бунгаг | pronounced as /[ʙuŋɡaɡ]/ | 'dung beetle' | Generally paralinguistic. This is the only true word it is found in. | ||
| Senu River | Kwomtari[2] | ||||||
| Skou | Sko | ||||||
The Knorkator song "[Buchstabe]" (the actual title is a glyph) on the 1999 album Hasenchartbreaker uses a similar sound (though linguolabial instead of bilabial) to replace "br" in a number of German words (e.g. pronounced as /[ˈʙaːtkaɐ̯tɔfəln]/ for German: [[Home fries|Bratkartoffeln]]).
| Oceanic | Kele[3] | pronounced as /[ᵐʙulim]/ | 'face' | And other languages of the Admiralty Islands | |||
| Titan | pronounced as /[ᵐʙutukei]/ | 'wooden plate' | |||||
| Unua | pronounced as /[ᵐʙue]/ | 'pig' | |||||
| Ahamb | pronounced as /[nãᵐʙwas]/ | 'pig' | Phonemic; contrasts between pronounced as //ᵐʙ// and pronounced as //ʙ̥//. | ||||
| Border | Kilmeri | ||||||
| Naga | Sangtam | pronounced as /[t͡ʙàŋ]/[4] | 'needle' | Phonemic as pronounced as //t͡ʙ//, contrasts with pronounced as //t͡ʙ̥ʰ//. | |
| Qiangic | Lizu[5] | TU, | pronounced as /[tʙ̩˥˩]/ | 'bean' | Syllabic; allophone of pronounced as //u// after initial pronounced as //pʰ, p, b, tʰ, t, d//. |
| Namuyi | '''tb'''ĭh | pronounced as /[t͡ʙ̩˨]/ | 'to slaughter' | Phonemic according to occurring before pronounced as //u// or as a syllabic consonant. pronounced as /[ʙ]/ is classified as an allophone of pronounced as //u// following a pronounced as //p//, pronounced as //b//, pronounced as //t// or pronounced as //d// in the phonemic analysis of, and . No bilabial trills are present in the phonemic analysis of . | |
| '''db'''ù | pronounced as /[d͡ʙu˥˨]/ | 'wild' | |||
| '''pb'''ĭh | pronounced as /[p͡ʙ̩]/ | 'to deliver' | |||
| pronounced as /[b͡ʙuda]/ | surname | ||||
| Pumi | biiv | pronounced as /[pʙ̩˥]/ | 'to dig' | Syllabic; allophone of pronounced as //ə// after pronounced as //pʰ, p, b, tʰ, t, d//. | |
In many of the languages in which the bilabial trill occurs, it occurs only as part of a prenasalized bilabial stop with trilled release, pronounced as /[mbʙ]/. That developed historically from a prenasalized stop before a relatively high back vowel like pronounced as /[mbu]/. In such instances, the sounds are usually still limited to the environment of a following pronounced as /[u]/. However, the trills in Mangbetu may precede any vowel and are sometimes preceded by only a nasal.
pronounced as /navigation/