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Voiced bilabial trill

Consonantal sound represented by ⟨ʙ⟩ in IPA From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Voiced bilabial trill
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The voiced bilabial trill is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents the sound is ʙ, a small capital version of the Latin letter b, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is B\.

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Features

Features of the voiced bilabial trill:

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Varieties

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Occurrences

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The Knorkator song "[Buchstabe]" (the actual title is a glyph) on the 1999 album Hasenchartbreaker uses a similar sound (though linguolabial instead of bilabial) to replace "br" in a number of German words (e.g. [ˈʙaːtkaʁtɔfl̩n] for Bratkartoffeln).

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Prestopped trills and stops with trill release

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Phonology

In many of the languages in which the bilabial trill occurs, it occurs only as part of a prenasalized bilabial stop with trilled release, [mbʙ]. That developed historically from a prenasalized stop before a relatively high back vowel like [mbu]. In such instances, the sounds are usually still limited to the environment of a following [u]. However, the trills in Mangbetu may precede any vowel[12] and are sometimes preceded by only a nasal.

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