A voiced labialâÂÂvelar nasal is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is .
A labialâÂÂvelar nasal is found in West and Central Africa and eastern New Guinea, as well as in certain contexts in Vietnamese.
Features of a voiced labialâÂÂvelar nasal:
Some languages, especially in Vanuatu, combine this labialâÂÂvelar nasal with a labialâÂÂvelar approximant release, hence .
In the Banks Islands languages which have it, the phoneme is written in local orthographies, using a macron on the corresponding bilabial. In other languages of Vanuatu further south (such as South Efate, or Lenakel), the same segment is spelled with a combining tilde.