Bilabial

/baɪˈleɪ.bi.əl/

Synonyms for "bilabial" (125 found)

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dissimilated dissimilation dorsalepenthetic vowelexplosive flat front glide glossal glottal glottalization guttural hard heavy high intonated labial labialization labiodental labiovelar

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laryngeal lateral lax light lingual liquid lowmanner of articulationmid modification monophthong monophthongal morphophoneme mute muted narrow nasal nasalized

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occlusive open oxytone palatal palatalizedparasitic vowelpeak pharyngeal pharyngealization pharyngealized phone phoneme phonemic phonetic phonic pitch pitched plosive posttonicprothetic vowel

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retroflex roundedsegmental phonemesemivowel soft sonant sonorityspeech soundstop stopped stressed strong surd syllabicsyllabic nucleussyllabic peaksyllable tense thick throaty tonal tonictransition soundtriphthong twangy unaccented unrounded unstressed velar vocable vocalic vocoid voice voicedvoiced soundvoicelessvoiceless soundvoicing vowel vowellike weak wide

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labiallabial consonant

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Most languages have bilabial consonants.

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Bilabial sounds are harder to learn in some languages.

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The patient had bilabial tears from the rapid delivery.

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P, B, and M are bilabial consonants.

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