A voiced bilabial implosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is .
Features Features of a voiced bilabial implosive:
Occurrence Language Word IPA Meaning Notes Akatek 'the walking (thing)' Balanta-Ganja ? 'heron' Possible allophone for . Ega 'send away' English Southern American body 'body' Possible realization of word-initial . See English phonology Fula 'Fulbe person' (g.) Goemai 'to fetch' Hausa / 'quarreling' Jamaican Patois 'beat' Allophone of in the onset of prominent syllables. Kalabari 'kill' Khmer / noun: 'France'adjective: 'French' See Khmer phonology Konso 'to hide' Kwaza 'put [the] hat on!' Latundê '(they) are two' One of the possible realisations of . Mayan Yucatec 'jaguar' Mam 'foot' Mono 'at' Punjabi Dialectal / 'goat' Paumarí 'old' Saraiki 'child' Sindhi Serer / 'to crawl' Contrasts .Southern Nambikwara 'ask excuse' One of the possible realisations of . Shona 'father' Tera 'to talk' Contrasts phonemically with palatalized implosive, . Tukang Besi 'previous' Vietnamese 'you' See Vietnamese phonology Standard Zhuang 'world' Zulu 'my father'
See also Index of phonetics articles Voiceless bilabial implosive B̤ē
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