Labial (definition)

A labial consonant is one whose articulation necessitates the involvement of the lips. How exactly the lips move further distinguishes the class of labial sounds: the lips can be brought together to make bilabial sounds or they can interact with the upper teeth to make labiodental sounds. The labial sounds of English are [w, p, b, m, f, v]. There are similar labial sounds in Gaelic; these include [w, p, pʰ, m, f, v] represented by the spellings <bh/mh, b, p, m, f/ph, bh/mh>, respectively.

See Also

• Bilabial (definition)
• Labiodental (definition)
• Coronal (definition)
• Place of Articulation (definition)
• Sounds of Scottish Gaelic

External Links

• Interactive IPA Charts

The link below takes you away from the Gaelic Wiki to Wikipedia. Since wikipedia pages can be edited by anyone, they often contain inaccurate information. So be careful!

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labial_consonant

References

• Crystal, David. (1997) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
• Ladefoged, Peter (1993) A Course in Phonetics Third Edition. London: Harcourt Press.