Voiced bilabial implosive

A voiced bilabial implosive is a type of consonant used in some spoken languages. The letter for this sound in the International Phonetic Alphabet is . The X-SAMPA letter for this sound is b_<.

Features
Features of the voiced bilabial implosive:

 Examples 
 Language  Word  IPA  Meaning  Notes Ega    'send away' English  Southern American  boy    'boy'  This is one way  can be pronounced at the start of a word. See English phonology Fula      'Fulbe person' (g.)  Goemai      'to fetch'  Hausa      'quarreling'  Jamaican Patois  beat    'beat'  Allophone of  at the beginning of prominent syllables. Kalabari      'kill'  Khmer   /     noun: 'France'adjective: 'French'  See Khmer phonologyLatundê'(they) are two'One of the ways  can be pronounced.Southern Nambikwara'ask excuse'One of the ways  can be pronounced.MayanYucatecbalam[ɓalam]'jaguar' Mono      'at'  Paumarí  'old' Seereer-Siin  ɓood    'to crawl'  Contrasts phonemically with the voiceless bilabial implosive. (When two sounds contrast, it means that the two sounds are different in that language, and changing the sound can change what the word means.)Saraikiٻال'child' Sindhi      Tera  ɓala    'to talk'  Contrasts phonemically with palatalized implosive,  Tukang Besi    'previous'  Vietnamese      'you'  See Vietnamese phonology Zulu      'my father' 

Related pages
 Voiceless bilabial implosive
 B̤ē

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Category:Consonants