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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==
*[http://www.paulmeier.com/ipa/charts.html Interactive IPA Charts]

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*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.

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