A voiceless labialâÂÂvelar plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. It is a and pronounced simultaneously and is considered a double articulation. To make this sound, one can say Coe but with the lips closed as if one were saying Poe; the lips are to be released at the same time as or a fraction of a second after the C of Coe. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ~ .
A voiceless labialâÂÂvelar plosive is found in Vietnamese and various languages in West and Central Africa. In the orthography of Yoruba in Nigeria it is written with a simple .
Some languages, especially in Papua New Guinea and in Vanuatu, combine this voiceless labialâÂÂvelar stop with a labialâÂÂvelar approximant release, hence . Thus Mwotlap (Banks Islands, north Vanuatu) has ('my father-in-law').
In the Banks Islands languages which have it, the phoneme is written in local orthographies. In other languages of Vanuatu further south (such as South Efate, or Lenakel), the same segment is spelled .
Features of a voiceless labialâÂÂvelar stop: