The voiced bilabial trill is a type of

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al sound, used in some spoken

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s. The symbol in the

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that represents the sound is , and the equivalent

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symbol is B\.

Features

Features of the voiced bilabial trill: In most instances, it is only found as the trilled release of a

prenasalized stop Prenasalized consonants are phonetic sequences of a nasal and an obstruent (or occasionally a non-nasal sonorant such as ) that behave phonologically like single consonants. The primary reason for considering them to be single consonants, rather ...

Varieties

Occurrences

The

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song " uchstabe (the actual title is a

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) 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. for ).

Prenasalized

Prestopped trills and stops with trill release

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, . That developed historically from a prenasalized stop before a relatively high

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like . In such instances, the sounds are usually still limited to the environment of a following . However, the trills in Mangbetu may precede any vowel and are sometimes preceded by only a nasal.

Notes

References

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{{IPA navigation Trill consonants Bilabial consonants Pulmonic consonants Oral consonants