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Places of articulation
Labial consonant
Bilabial consonant
Labiodental consonant
Linguolabial consonant
Coronal consonant
Interdental consonant
Dental consonant
Retroflex consonant
Alveolar consonant
Postalveolar consonant
Alveolo-palatal consonant
Dorsal consonant
Palatal consonant
Labial-palatal consonant 
Velar consonant
Labial-velar consonant
Uvular consonant
Pharyngeal consonant
Epiglottal consonant
Glottal consonant
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In phonetics, a bilabial consonant is a consonant articulated with both lips. The bilabial consonants identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) are:



IPA Description Example
Language Orthography IPA Meaning
Image:Xsampa-m.png bilabial nasal English man [mæn] man
Image:Xsampa-p.png voiceless bilabial plosive English spin [s pɪn] spin
Image:Xsampa-b.png voiced bilabial plosive English bed [bɛd] bed
Spanish lobo [lo β̞o] wolf
Image:Xsampa-pslash.png voiceless bilabial fricative Japanese 富士山 (fujisan) [ɸuʝisaɴ] Mount Fuji
Image:Xsampa-B2.png voiced bilabial fricative Dutch waar [β] authentic
Image:Xsampa-Bslash.png bilabial trill
Image:Xsampa-Oslash.png bilabial click



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  Results from FactBites:
 
The Daltaí Boards: Labial fricatives (1028 words)
It is difficult to give definite rules for the occurrence of the labio-dental and bilabial members of the f and w phonemes in the speech of those who have both articulations.
A slight movement of the upper lip in the direction of the lower one is noticed when he is making a velarised labio-dental, although the friction is visibly the result of the closeness of the lower lip to the upper teeth.
Both labio-dental and bilabial friction are common in certain positions such as (i) before o, (ii) preceded by i: and followed by another vowel...
Alexandre Kimenyi's Website (2969 words)
Prenasalized consonants are the bilabial mp and mb; the interdentsal mv and mf, mpf; the alveolar nt, nd, ns, nz and nts; the palatal nsh, nj and nc and the velar nk, ng and nshy.
The velarized consonants are the bilabial pw, bw, mw; the interdental fw and vw; the alveolar tw, dw, sw, zw, nw rw and tsw; the palatal shw, jw, cw and yw; the velar kw, gw and hw.
Palatalized-velarized consonants are the bilabial byw, pyw, and myw; the alveolars tyw, dyw, syw and the velar fricative shyw.
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