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Definition of Bilabial
1. Noun. A consonant that is articulated using both lips; /p/ or /b/ or /w/.
2. Adjective. Of or relating to or being a speech sound that is articulated using both lips. "Bilabial fricatives"
Definition of Bilabial
1. Adjective. (phonetics) Articulated with both lips. ¹
2. Noun. (phonetics) A speech sound articulated with both lips. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bilabial
1. a sound articulated with both lips [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bilabial
Literary usage of Bilabial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Latin Language: An Historical Account of Latin Sounds, Stems and Flexions by Wallace Martin Lindsay (1894)
"But it is highly probable that Latin f was at some time bilabial, as it is to
this day in Spanish, where v (fj) is bilabial too. bilabial f naturally tends ..."
2. A Grammar of the German Language: Designed for a Thoro and Practical Study by George Oliver Curme (1922)
"It was originally a bilabial sound pronounced with both lips just as English ...
In South and Middle Germany it is a bilabial sound, v, pronounced with both ..."
3. From Latin to Spanish by Paul M. Lloyd (1987)
"When a bilabial nasal came into contact with a liquid, ... 31 The nasal before
a bilabial was often spelled with the letter N (or the tilde over the ..."
4. A Latin Grammar by Charles Edwin Bennett (1895)
"Even if Greek /3 had by 100 AD become a bilabial spirant (as it certainly did
... For the bilabial spirant is very easily confused with the semivowel. ..."
5. Trukese-English Dictionary =: Pwpwuken Tettenin Fóós, Chuuk-Ingenes by Ward Hunt Goodenough, Hiroshi Sugita (1990)
"name of the consonant (voiced, bilabial, nasal continuant) written m. ... name of
the consonant (velarized bilabial stop) written ..."
6. Old Spanish Readings: Selected on the Basis of Critically Edited Texts by Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford (1911)
"In modern Castilian the b from / is a bilabial spirant indistinguishable from
... The L. b became the bilabial spirant and as such was equal in value to the ..."
7. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, Henry Jackson (1888)
"This breathed F would differ very slightly from bilabial / and its regularly ...
1 This confusion of bilabial / with omitted the diacritic after the second ..."
8. A Practical German Grammar by Calvin Thomas (1905)
"The bilabial iu sounds at first much like English w in win, ... In large parts
of Middle and South Germany the bilabial to is the only one used. 59. ..."
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