The voiced bilabial flap is an uncommon non-
rhotic flap. It is usually, and perhaps always, an
allophone
In phonology, an allophone (; from the Greek , , 'other' and , , 'voice, sound') is a set of multiple possible spoken soundsor '' phones''or signs used to pronounce a single phoneme in a particular language. For example, in English, (as in '' ...
of the
labiodental flap
In phonetics, the voiced labiodental flap is a speech sound found primarily in languages of Central Africa, such as Kera and Mangbetu. It has also been reported in the Austronesian language Sika. It is one of the few non- rhotic flaps. The ...
, though it is the preferred allophone in a minority of languages such as
Banda and some of its neighbors.
In
Mono
Mono may refer to:
Common meanings
* Infectious mononucleosis, "the kissing disease"
* Monaural, monophonic sound reproduction, often shortened to mono
* Mono-, a numerical prefix representing anything single
Music Performers
* Mono (Japanese b ...
, the sound has been described as follows:
And, for allophony between the bilabial and dentolabial flap,
In the literature it has often been transcribed by a ''w'' modified by the
extra-short diacritic, .
In 2005 the International Phonetic Association adopted the ''right hook v'' symbol to represent the labiodental flap. Since then, the received transcription of the bilabial flap involves employing the labiodental flap symbol modified by an
advanced diacritic: .
Since flaps are similar to brief stops, it could alternatively be transcribed as .
Occurrence
Notes
References
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Further reading
*Olson and Hajek, 2001
'The Geographic and Genetic Distribution of the Labial Flap'*
External links
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Bilabial consonants
Tap and flap consonants
Pulmonic consonants