linguolabial consonant

Linguolabials are consonants articulated by putting the tongue tip or tongue blade against the upper lip. They represent one extreme of an articulatory continuum which extends from linguolabial place to retracted apical alveolar or even sublaminal retroflex places of articulation. Cross-linguistically, consonants produced at the linguolabial place of articulation are very rare, even though they do not represent a particularly exotic combination of articulatory configurations, unlike click consonants or ejectives. Linguolabial consonants are found in some Oceanic languages. The linguolabial consonants identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet are:

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style="border:1px solid black"\|	style="border:1px solid black"\|voiceless linguolabial plosive	style="border:1px solid black"\|	style="border:1px solid black"\|	style="border:1px solid black"\|	style="border:1px solid black"\|
style="border:1px solid black"\|	style="border:1px solid black"\|voiced linguolabial plosive	style="border:1px solid black"\|	style="border:1px solid black"\|	style="border:1px solid black"\|	style="border:1px solid black"\|
style="border:1px solid black"\|	style="border:1px solid black"\|linguolabial nasal	style="border:1px solid black"\|	style="border:1px solid black"\|	style="border:1px solid black"\|	style="border:1px solid black"\|
style="border:1px solid black"\|	style="border:1px solid black"\|linguolabial trill	style="border:1px solid black"\|	style="border:1px solid black"\|	style="border:1px solid black"\|	style="border:1px solid black"\|
style="border:1px solid black"\|	style="border:1px solid black"\|voiceless linguolabial fricative	style="border:1px solid black"\|	style="border:1px solid black"\|	style="border:1px solid black"\|	style="border:1px solid black"\|
style="border:1px solid black"\|	style="border:1px solid black"\|voiced linguolabial fricative	style="border:1px solid black"\|	style="border:1px solid black"\|	style="border:1px solid black"\|	style="border:1px solid black"\|

Linguolabial Consonant

See also