Bilabial nasal facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Bilabial nasal |
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| IPA number | 114 | ||
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| Entity (decimal) | m |
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| Unicode (hex) | U+006D | ||
| X-SAMPA | m |
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| Kirshenbaum | m |
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The bilabial nasal is a type of consonant. It is used in almost all spoken languages. The letter for this sound in the International Phonetic Alphabet is ⟨⟩. The X-SAMPA symbol for this sound is ⟨m⟩. We can find the bilabial nasal in English, and it is the sound represented by "m" in map and rum.
Nearly all languages contain this sound. A few languages (for example, Mohawk) do not often use this sound.
These are some examples of where the bilabial nasal occurs in various languages:
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | |
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| Arabic | Standard | مطابخ | align="center" | align="center"|'kitchens' |
| Catalan | [[[Catalan orthography|mare]]] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) | align="center" | align="center"| 'mother' | |
| Chinese | Cantonese | 晚/[[[Chinese character|maan5]]] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) | align="center" | align="center"| 'night' |
| Mandarin | 母親/[[[Chinese character|mǔqīn]]] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) | align="center" | align="center"| 'mother' | |
| Dutch | [[[Dutch orthography|mond]]] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) | align="center" | align="center"| 'mouth' | |
| English | [[[English orthography|him]]] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) | align="center" | align="center"| 'him' | |
| Finnish | [[[Finnish orthography|minä]]] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) | align="center" | align="center"| 'I' | |
| French | [[[French orthography|manger]]] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) | align="center" | align="center"| 'to eat' | |
| Georgian | სამი | align="center" | align="center"|'three' | |
| Greek | [[[Greek alphabet|μάζα]]/maza] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) | align="center" | align="center"| 'clump' | |
| Hawaiian | [[[Hawaiian alphabet|maka]]] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) | 'eye' | ||
| Indonesian | [[[Latin alphabet|masuk]]] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) | 'enter' | ||
| Italian | [[[Italian alphabet|mamma]]] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) | align="center" | align="center"| 'mamma' | |
| Japanese | 乾杯/[[[Romanization of Japanese|kampai]]] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) | align="center" | align="center"| 'a toast' | |
| Malay | [[[Malay alphabet|malam]]] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) | 'night' | ||
| Malayalam | കമ്മി | 'shortage' | ||
| Polish | [[[Polish orthography|masa]]] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) | 'mass' | ||
| Portuguese | [[[Portuguese orthography|mato]]] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) | align="center" | align="center"| 'bush' | |
| Russian | муж | align="center" | align="center"| 'husband' | |
| Spanish | [[[Spanish orthography|grumete]]] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) | align="center" | align="center"| 'cabin boy' | |
| Vietnamese | [[[Vietnamese alphabet|muối]]] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) | align="center" | align="center"| 'salt' | |
| Zapotec | Tilquiapan | man | align="center" | align="center"| 'animal' |
See also
In Spanish: Nasal bilabial para niños
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