Voiced bilabial nasal

The voiced bilabial nasal is a type of consonant. It is used in almost all spoken languages. The letter for this sound in the International Phonetic Alphabet is ⟨⟩. The X-SAMPA symbol for this sound is ⟨m⟩.  The English language has this sound, and it is the sound represented by "m" in map and rum.

Nearly all languages contain this sound. A few languages (for example, Mohawk) do not often use this sound.

 Features 

 Examples 

Language  Word  IPA Meaning ArabicStandard      'kitchens' Catalan      'mother'Chinese Cantonese   /     'night' Mandarin   /     'mother' Dutch        'mouth' English        'him' Finnish        'I' French        'to eat' Georgian      'three' Greek   /     'clump' Hawaiian       'eye' Indonesian       'enter' Italian        'mamma' Japanese   乾杯/     'a toast' Malay      'night'Malayalam   'shortage' Polish       'mass' Portuguese        'bush' Russian        'husband' Spanish        'cabin boy' Vietnamese     'salt' Zapotec Tilquiapan      'animal'

References

Category:Consonants