Voiceless bilabial implosive explained

Above:	Voiceless bilabial implosive
Ipa Symbol:	ɓ̥
Ipa Symbol2:	ƥ
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A voiceless bilabial implosive is a rare consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is (IPA|ɓ̥) or (IPA|pʼ↓). A dedicated IPA letter, (IPA|ƥ), was withdrawn in 1993.

Features

Features of the voiceless bilabial implosive:

Occurrence

A rare and evidently unstable sound, pronounced as //ɓ̥// is found in the Serer of Senegal and in the Owere dialect of Igbo in Nigeria. It can also be found in Ngiti in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.^[1] It is also found in multiple Mayan languages, such as Kaqchikel, Mam, and Akatek.

Language	Word	IPA	Meaning	Notes
Akatek	kaapʼ	pronounced as /[kaːɓ̥]/	'two'	Word-final allophone of /ɓ/
Kaqchikel^[2]	b'ojoy	pronounced as /[ɓ̥oχoj]/	'pot'
Mam^[3]	b'aj	pronounced as /[ɓ̥aχ]/	'finish'	In free variation with /ɓ/.
Serer				Contrasts /ɓ̥, ɗ̥, ʄ̊, ɓ, ɗ, ʄ/.
Ngiti^[4]

See also

• Voiced bilabial implosive

References

Works cited

External links

pronounced as /navigation/

Notes and References

1. Kutsch Lojenga . Constance . 1994 . Ngiti: a Central-Sudanic language of Zaire . PhD . Köln . . 31.
2. Patal Majzul et al., 2000, pp. 24ff.
3. Book: England, Nora C. . A grammar of Mam, a Mayan language . 1983 . University of Texas Press . 0292729278 . Austin . 748935484.
4. Kutsch Lojenga . Constance . 1994 . Ngiti: a Central-Sudanic language of Zaire . PhD . Köln . Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.