Voiced Bilabial Plosive

The voiced bilabial plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages.

The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is b, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is b. The voiced bilabial stop occurs in English, and it is the sound denoted by the letter ⟨b⟩ in obey [oʊˈbeɪ] (oU"beI).

Voiced bilabial plosive
b
IPA Number102
Audio sample
Encoding
Entity (decimal)b
Unicode (hex)U+0062
X-SAMPAb
Braille⠃ (braille pattern dots-12)

Features

Voiced Bilabial Plosive 

Features of the voiced bilabial stop:

Varieties

IPA Description
b plain b
labialised
b̜ʷ semi-labialised
b̹ʷ strongly labialised
palatalised
breathy voiced
velarised

Occurrence

Occurrence of [b] in several languages
Language Word IPA Meaning Notes
Adyghe бгъу / bġ° 'nine'
Arabic Standard باب / baab / bāb [baːb] 'door' See Arabic phonology
Assyrian ܒܒܐ baba [baːba] 'father'
Armenian Eastern բարի/bari 'kind'
Basque bero [beɾo] 'hot'
Bengali লো / balo [bɔlo] 'say!' Contrasts with aspirated form. See Bengali phonology
Catalan bell [ˈbeʎ] 'beautiful' See Catalan phonology
Chechen борз / borz [borz] 'wolf'
Czech bota [ˈbota] 'boot' See Czech phonology
Danish Standard ber [ˈløːbɐ] 'runner' Only partially voiced; possible allophone of /b/ in the intervocalic position. More often voiceless [p]. See Danish phonology
Dutch boer [buːr] 'farmer' See Dutch phonology
English aback 'aback' See English phonology
Esperanto batalo [baˈtalo] 'war' See Esperanto phonology
Filipino buto [buto] 'bone'
French boue [bu] 'mud' See French phonology
Georgian ავშვი / bavšvi [ˈbavʃvi] 'child'
German aber 'but' See Standard German phonology
Greek μπόχα / bócha [ˈbo̞xa] 'reek' See Modern Greek phonology
Gujarati ક્રી / bakri [bəkri] 'goat' See Gujarati phonology
Hebrew בית / báyit [bajit] 'house' See Modern Hebrew phonology
Hindustani Hindi बाल / bāl [bäːl] 'hair' Contrasts with aspirated version /bʱ/. See Hindi-Urdu phonology
Urdu بال / bāl
Hungarian baba [ˈbɒbɒ] 'baby' See Hungarian phonology
Italian bile [ˈbile] 'rage' See Italian phonology
Japanese / ban [baɴ] '(one's) turn' See Japanese phonology
Kabardian бгъуы/bg"uy 'nine'
Korean 지붕 / jibung [t͡ɕibuŋ] 'roof' See Korean phonology
Kurdish Northern bav [bɑːv] 'father' See Kurdish phonology
Central باوک/bâwk [bɑːwk]
Southern باوگ/bâwig [bɑːwɨg]
Luxembourgish geblosen [ɡ̊əˈbloːzən] 'blown' More often voiceless [p]. See Luxembourgish phonology
Macedonian убав/ubav [ˈubav] 'beautiful' See Macedonian phonology
Malay baru [bäru] 'new'
Maltese għatba [aːtˈba] 'threshold'
Marathi टाटा / baṭāṭā [bəˈʈaːʈaː] 'potato' See Marathi phonology
Nepali बाटो / bāṭo [bäʈo] 'path' See Nepali phonology
Norwegian bål [ˈbɔːl] 'bonfire' See Norwegian phonology
Odia ବା/barô [bärɔ] 'twelve' Contrasts with aspirated form.
Persian خوب/ xub [xub] 'good' See Persian phonology
Pirahã pibaóí [ˈpìbàóí̯] 'parent'
Polish bas 'bass' See Polish phonology
Portuguese bato [ˈbatu] 'I strike' See Portuguese phonology
Punjabi ਬਿੱਲੀ/billī [bɪlːi] 'cat'
Romanian bou [bow] 'bull' See Romanian phonology.
Russian рыба / ryba [ˈrɨbə] 'fish' Contrasts with palatalized form. See Russian phonology
Serbo-Croatian биће / biće [bǐːt͡ɕě] 'being' See Serbo-Croatian phonology
Slovak b [bi̞c] 'to be'
Slovene biti [ˈbìːt̪í] 'to be'
Southern Min / ban [ban] 'Fujian province' Only in colloquial speech.
Spanish invertir [ĩmbe̞ɾˈt̪iɾ] 'to invest' See Spanish phonology
Swedish bra [ˈbɾɑː] 'good' May be an approximant in casual speech. See Swedish phonology
Telugu డి [badi] 'school' Contrasts with aspirated form. Aspirated form is articulated as breathy consonant.
Thai ัด / bam-bàt [bam.bat̚] 'therapy' See Thai phonology
Turkish bulut [ˈbuɫut̪] 'cloud' See Turkish phonology
Tyap bai [bai] 'to come'
Ukrainian брат / brat [brɑt̪] 'brother' See Ukrainian phonology
Welsh mab [mɑːb] 'son' See Welsh phonology
West Frisian bak [bak] 'tray'
Wu / bi [bi] 'skin'
Xiang / baw [bau] 'to float'
Yi / bbo [bo˧] 'mountain'
Zapotec Tilquiapan bald [bald] 'few'

See also

Notes

References

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