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Also known as bilabial

consonant articulated with both lips

AI overview

A bilabial consonant is a speech sound made by bringing both lips together, like the "b" sound in "baby" or the "m" sound in "mom." These consonants matter because they're fundamental building blocks of human speech found across virtually all languages, helping us create the variety of sounds needed to communicate.

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Encyclopedic overview

In phonetics, a bilabial consonant is a labial consonant articulated with both lips.

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “bilabial consonant” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.