Bilabial nasal

Bilabial nasal
m
IPA number 114
Encoding
Entity (decimal) m
Unicode (hex) U+006D
X-SAMPA m
Kirshenbaum m
Braille ⠍ (braille pattern dots-134)
Sound
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The bilabial nasal is a type of consonantal sound used in almost all spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is m, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is m. The bilabial nasal occurs in English, and it is the sound represented by "m" in map and rum.

It occurs nearly universally, and few languages (e.g. Mohawk) are known to lack this sound.

Features

Features of the bilabial nasal:

Occurrence

Language Word IPA Meaning Notes
Adyghe мазэ [maːza] 'moon'
ArabicStandard[1] مطابخ [mɑˈtˤɑːbiχ]'kitchens' See Arabic phonology
Armenian Eastern[2] մայր  [mɑjɾ]  'mother'
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic mara [maːra] 'owner'
Basque maitatu [majt̪at̪u] 'to love'
Bulgarian мъгла [mɐɡla] 'fog'
Catalan[3] mare [ˈmaɾə] 'mother' See Catalan phonology
Cherokee [ama˦]'water'
Chinese Cantonese /maan5 [maːn˩˧] 'night' See Cantonese phonology
Mandarin 母親/mǔqīn [mu˨˩ tɕʰin˥] 'mother' See Mandarin phonology
Czech m [mʊʃ] 'man' See Czech phonology
Dutch[4] mond [mɔnt] 'mouth' See Dutch phonology
English him [hɪm] 'him' See English phonology
Filipino manok [maˈnok] 'rooster' See Filipino phonology
Finnish minä [ˈminæ] 'I' See Finnish phonology
French[5] manger [mɑ̃ʒe] 'to eat' See French phonology
Georgian[6] სა [ˈsɑmi]'three'
German Maus [maʊ̯s] 'mouse' See German phonology
Greek[7] μάζα/maza [ˈmaza] 'clump' See Modern Greek phonology
Gujarati મો/mōr [moːɾ] 'male peacock' See Gujarati phonology
Hawaiian[8] maka [maka] 'eye' See Hawaiian phonology
Hindi मकान [məkaːn] 'house' See Hindi-Urdu phonology
Hebrew אמא [ˈʔimä] 'mother' See Modern Hebrew phonology
Hungarian ma [mɒ] 'today' See Hungarian phonology
Indonesian[9] masuk [ˈmäsʊʔ] 'enter'
Italian[10] mamma [ˈmamma] 'mamma' See Italian phonology
Japanese[11] 乾杯/kampai [kampai] 'a toast' See Japanese phonology
Kabardian мазэ [maːza] 'moon'
Kagayanen[12] ? [manaŋ] 'older sister'
Korean 엄마/eomma[ʌmma] 'mommy' See Korean phonology
Macedonian мајка [ˈmajka] 'mother' See Macedonian phonology
Malay malam [mäläm] 'night'
Malayalam[13] കമ്മി [kəmmi] 'shortage'
Maltese ilma [ilma] 'water'
Marathi [mən] 'mind' See Marathi phonology
Mutsun muruṭ [muɾuʈ] 'night'
Norwegian mamma [ˈmɑmːɑ] 'mom' See Norwegian phonology
Persian مادر [mɒdær]'mother' See Persian phonology
Pirahã baíxi [ˈmàí̯ʔì]'parent' allophone of /b/
Polish[14] masa  [ˈmäsä]  'mass' See Polish phonology
Portuguese[15] mato [ˈmatu] 'bush' See Portuguese phonology
Punjabi ਮੈਂ[mɛ̃ː]'I'
Russian[16] муж  [muʂ]  'husband' Contrasts with palatalized version. See Russian phonology
Serbo-Croatian милина / milina [milǐnä] 'enjoyment' See Serbo-Croatian phonology
Slovak m [mʊʃ] 'man'
Spanish[17] grumete [ɡɾuˈme̞te̞] 'cabin boy' See Spanish phonology
Swahili miti [ˈmiti] 'trees'
Swedish mask [mask] 'worm' See Swedish phonology
Tsez мец [mɛ̝t͡s] 'tongue'
Turkish benim [be̞nim] 'mine' See Turkish phonology
Ukrainian молоко [moɫoˈkɔ] 'milk' See Ukrainian phonology
Urdu مکان [məkaːn] 'house' See Hindi-Urdu phonology
Uyghur men [mæn] 'I'
Vietnamese[18] muối [mwoj˧ˀ˥] 'salt'See Vietnamese phonology
Welsh mam [mam] 'mother'See Welsh phonology
West Frisian mar [mar] 'lake'
Yi /ma [ma˧ ] 'bamboo'
Zapotec Tilquiapan[19] man [maŋ] 'animal'

See also

References

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