See also: Voiceless labial-velar implosive.
| Ipa Number: | 109 (101) |
| Ipa Symbol: | k͡p |
| Decimal1: | 107 |
| Decimal2: | 865 |
| Decimal3: | 112 |
The voiceless labial–velar plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. It is a pronounced as /[k]/ and pronounced as /[p]/ pronounced simultaneously and is considered a double articulation. To make this sound, one can say Coe but with the lips closed as if one were saying Poe; the lips are to be released at the same time as or a fraction of a second after the C of Coe. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is (IPA|k͡p).
The voiceless labial–velar plosive is found in Vietnamese and various languages in West and Central Africa. In Yoruba it is written with a simple (p).
Features of the voiceless labial–velar stop:
| Language | Word | Meaning | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| kpà | pronounced as /[k͡pà]/ | 'to roam' | |||
| pronounced as /[k͡pá]/ | 'build a hedge to enclose a field' | ||||
| kpa | pronounced as /[k͡pɐ́]/ | 'to die' | |||
| Igbo | kpọ́ | pronounced as /[k͡pɔ́]/ | 'call' | ||
| àkpà | pronounced as /[àk͡pà]/ | 'bag' | |||
| kpa | pronounced as /[k͡pa]/ | 'flee' | |||
| Nigerian Pidgin | Phonemic. Found in substrate words and later loanwords from native Nigerian languages. See Languages of Nigeria. | ||||
| Saramaccan[1] | akpó | [ak͡pó] | 'arrow type' | Possibly allophonic with /kʷ/, but possibly phonemic as well | |
| Vietnamese | Vietnamese: [[Vietnamese alphabet|lú'''c''']] | pronounced as /[luk͡p˧˥]/ | 'time' | Allophone of pronounced as //k// after pronounced as //u, o, ɔ//. See Vietnamese phonology | |
| '''kp'''a|italic=yes | pronounced as /[k͡pa]/ | 'pestle' | |||
| Yoruba | pápá | pronounced as /[k͡pák͡pá]/ | 'field' | ||
| Above: | Voiceless labialized labial–velar plosive |
| Ipa Symbol: | k͡pʷ |
Some languages, especially in Papua New Guinea and in Vanuatu, combine this voiceless labial–velar stop with a labial–velar approximant release, hence pronounced as /[k͡pʷ]/. Thus Mwotlap (Banks Islands, north Vanuatu) has pronounced as /[k͡pʷɪlɣɛk]/ ('my father-in-law').
In the Banks Islands languages which have it, the phoneme pronounced as //k͡pʷ// is written (q) in local orthographies.In other languages of Vanuatu further south (such as South Efate, or Lenakel), the same segment is spelled (p̃).
pronounced as /navigation/