Bilabial ejective Totally Explained

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The bilabial ejective is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is pʼ, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is p_>.

Features

Features of the bilabial ejective:

Its manner of articulation is plosive or stop, which means it's produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract.
Its place of articulation is bilabial which means it's articulated with both lips,
Its phonation type is voiceless, which means it's produced without vibrations of the vocal cords.
It is an oral consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth.
It is a central consonant, which means it's produced by allowing the airstream to flow over the center of the tongue, rather than the sides.
The airstream mechanism is glottalic egressive, which means it's produced by pushing air with the glottis, rather than with the diaphragm.

Occurs in

Ethiopian Semitic languages

Oromo

Quechua: /p/, /pʰ/, and /pʼ/ constitute a series of separate phonemes

Ubykh contrasts /pʼ pˤʼ/ with /p pˤ b bˤ/.Further Information

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