Voiceless bilabially post-trilled dental stop

The voiceless bilabially post-trilled dental stop is a type of consonant. It has only been found in a few languages: Oro Win and the Wariʼ language in South America and Sangtam in Northeast India.Coupe (2015) "Prestopped bilabial trills in Sangtam", Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow, 10–14 August 2015 This makes it a very rare sound. The letter in the International Phonetic Alphabet for sound is . The X-SAMPA symbol for this sound is t_dB\_0.

Features
Features of the voiceless bilabially post-trilled dental stop:

 It has two places of articulation:
 The stop is dental. This means that this sound is produced with the tongue at the upper teeth, the lower teeth, or both the upper teeth and the lower teeth. (Many stops and liquids that are called dental consonants are actually denti-alveolar consonants.)
 The trill is bilabial. This means that this sound is produced with both lips.

Occurrence
Language  Word  IPA Meaning  Notes Wari'   'to be pleasant' Forms a minimal pair with [toto], which means 'to paint'. (A minimal pair means that two words are only different because of one sound.)

References

Category:Consonants