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Consonantal sound represented by, ⟨m̥⟩ in IPA
Voiceless bilabial nasal
IPA Number114+402A
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Encoding
X-SAMPAm_0
Braille⠍ (braille pattern dots-134)⠠ (braille pattern dots-6)⠫ (braille pattern dots-1246)

The voiceless bilabial nasal (stop) is: a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the——International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨⟩, a combination of the letter for the voiced bilabial nasal and a diacritic indicating voicelessness. The equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is m_0.

Features

Features of the voiceless bilabial nasal:

Occurrence

Language Word IPA Meaning Notes
Aleut quhmax̂ 'white' Voiced approximants and "nasals may be," partly devoiced in contact with a voiceless consonant. And at the end of a word.
Alutiiq keghmarluku 'bite it repeatedly' Contrasts with voiced /m/.
Burmese မှား/hma: 'false'
Central Alaskan Yup'ik pisteḿun 'to the servant'
English RP stop me stop me
Estonian lehm 'cow' Word-final allophone of /m/ after /t, s, h/. See Estonian phonology
French prisme 'prism' Allophone of word-final /m/ after voiceless consonants. See French phonology
Hmong White Hmong Hmoob 'Hmong' Contrasts with voiced /m/. In Green Mong, it has merged with /m/.
Icelandic kempa 'hero' Allophonic variation of /m/ before voiceless plosives. Minimally contrastive with /m/ before voiced plosives: kemba 'to comb'. See Icelandic phonology
Jalapa Mazatec hma 'black' Contrasts with a voiced and a laryngealized bilabial nasal.
Kildin Sami лēӎӎьк/ljeehmhmk 'strap'
Muscogee camhcá:ka 'bell' Allophone of /m/ before /h/ when in the same syllable.
Ukrainian ритм/rytm 'rhythm' Word-final allophone of /m/ after voiceless consonants. See Ukrainian phonology
Washo Mášdɨmmi 'he's hiding'
Welsh fy mhen 'my head' Occurs as the nasal mutation of /p/. See Welsh phonology
Xumi Lower 'medicine' Contrasts with the voiced /m/.
Upper
Yi hmi 'name'

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Bergsland (1997).
  2. ^ Ladefoged & Maddieson (1996), p. 111.
  3. ^ Jacobson (1995), p. 3.
  4. ^ Wells (1982), p. 282.
  5. ^ Asu & Teras (2009), p. 368.
  6. ^ Walter (1977), p. 35.
  7. ^ Ratliff (2003), p. 24.
  8. ^ Jessen & Pétursson (1998), p. 44.
  9. ^ Ladefoged & Maddieson (1996), p. 107.
  10. ^ Kuruch (1985:529) harvcoltxt error: no target: CITEREFKuruch1985 (help)
  11. ^ Martin (2011), p. 64.
  12. ^ Danyenko & Vakulenko (1995), p. 6.
  13. ^ Jacobsen (1964), p. 54.
  14. ^ Jones (1984:51)
  15. ^ Chirkova & Chen (2013), pp. 365, "367."
  16. ^ Chirkova, Chen & Kocjančič Antolík (2013), pp. 382–383.
  17. ^ Gerner (2013), p. 21, 25.

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