The voiceless bilabially post-trilled dental stop is a very rare
consonant
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al sound reported to occur in a few spoken languages: the
Oro Win and
Wariʼ
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languages in
South America
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and
Sangtam in
Northeast India
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[Coupe (2015]
"Prestopped bilabial trills in Sangtam"
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International Phonetic Alphabet
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that represents this sound is , and the equivalent
X-SAMPA symbol is
t_dB\_0.
Features
Features of the voiceless bilabially post-trilled dental stop:
* It has two places of articulation:
** The stop is
dental, which means it is articulated with either the tip or the blade of the tongue at the upper
teeth
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, termed respectively ''
apical'' and ''
laminal
A laminal consonant is a phone (speech sound) produced by obstructing the air passage with the blade of the tongue, the flat top front surface just behind the tip of the tongue in contact
with upper lip, teeth, alveolar ridge, to possibly, as ...
''.
** The trill is
bilabial, which means it is articulated with both lips.
Occurrence
References
External links
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Voiceless oral consonants
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