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Voiced bilabial trill

A voiced bilabial trill is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents the sound is , a small capital letter b.

Features

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

Occurrence

Plain

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 back vowel 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.

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