Bilabial nasal

Bilabial nasal
m
Image
IPA number	114
Encoding
Entity (decimal)	m
Unicode (hex)	U+006D
X-SAMPA	m
Kirshenbaum	m
Sound

The bilabial nasal is a consonant. We use it in almost all spoken languages. International Phonetic Alphabet represents this sound as ⟨m⟩. The X-SAMPA symbol for this sound is ⟨m⟩. We can find the bilabial nasal in English, and it is the sound represented by "m" in map and rum.

Nearly all language contains this sound. But few languages (e.g., Mohawk) do not often use this sound.

Occurrence

Language		Word	IPA	Meaning	Notes
Adyghe		мажэ	[maʒɛ]	'hair brush'
Arabic	Standard	مطابخ	[mɑˈtˤɑːbiχ]	'kitchens'	See Arabic phonology
Armenian		մայր	[mɑjɾ]	'mother'
Basque		maitatu	[majt̪at̪u]	'to love'
Catalan		mare	[ˈmaɾə]	'mother'	See Catalan phonology
Cherokee		ᎠᎹ	[ama˦]	'water'
Chinese	Cantonese	晚/maan5	[maːn˩˧]	'night'	See Cantonese phonology
	Mandarin	母親/mǔqīn	[mu˨˩ tɕʰin˥]	'mother'	See Mandarin phonology
Czech		muž	[mʊʃ]	'man'	See Czech phonology
Dutch		mond	[mɔnt]	'mouth'	See Dutch phonology
English		him	[hɪm]	'him'	See English phonology
Filipino		manok	[maˈnok]	'rooster'	See Filipino phonology
Finnish		minä	[ˈminæ]	'I'	See Finnish phonology
French		manger	[mɑ̃ʒe]	'to eat'	See French phonology
Georgian		სამი	[ˈsɑmi]	'three'
German		rühmen	[ˈʁyːmən]	'to praise'	See German phonology
Greek		μάζα/maza	[ˈmaza]	'clump'	See Modern Greek phonology
Guajarati		મોર/mōr		'male peacock'	See Gujarati phonology
Hawaiian		maka	[maka]	'eye'	See Hawaiian phonology
Hindi		मकान	[məkaːn]	'house'	See Hindi-Urdu phonology
Hebrew		אמא	[ʔimä]	'mother'	See Modern Hebrew phonology
Hungarian		ma	[mɒ]	'today'	See Hungarian phonology
Indonesian		masuk	[ˈmasuʔ]	'enter'
Italian		mamma	[ˈmamma]	'mamma'	See Italian phonology
Japanese		乾杯/kampai	[kampai]	'a toast'	See Japanese phonology
Kagayanen		?	[manaŋ]	'older sister'
Korean		엄마/eomma	[ʌmma]	'mommy'	See Korean phonology
Malay		malam	[malam]	'night'
Malayalam		കമ്മി	[kəmmi]	'shortage'
Maltese		ilma	[ilma]	'water'
Norwegian		mamma	[ˈmɑmːɑ]	'mom'	See Norwegian phonology
Persian		مادر	[mɒdær]	'mother'	See Persian phonology
Pirahã		baíxi	[ˈmàí̯ʔì]	'parent'	allophone of /b/
Polish		masa	[ˈmasa]	'mass'	See Polish phonology
Portuguese		mato	[ˈmatu]	'bush'	See Portuguese phonology
Russian		муж	[muʂ]	'husband'	Contrasts with palatalized version. See Russian phonology
Serbo-Croatian		милина/milina	[milina]	'enjoyment'	See Serbo-Croatian phonology
Slovak		muž	[mʊʃ]	'man'
Spanish		grumete	[ɡɾuˈme̞te̞]	'cabin boy'	See Spanish phonology
Swahili		miti	[ˈmiti]	'trees'
Swedish		mask	[mask]	'worm'	See Swedish phonology
Tsez		мец	[mɛ̝t͡s]	'language, tongue'
Turkish		benim	[be̞nim]	'mine'	See Turkish phonology
Ukrainian		молоко	[mɔ.lɔ.ˈkɔ]	'milk'	See Ukrainian phonology
Urdu		مکان	[məkaːn]	'house'	See Hindi-Urdu phonology
Uyghur		men	[mæn]	'I'
Vietnamese		muối	[mwoj˧ˀ˥]	'salt'	See Vietnamese phonology
West Frisian		mar	[mar]	'lake'
Yi		ꂷ/ma	[ma˧ ]	'bamboo'
Zapotec	Tilquiapan	man	[maŋ]	'animal'

Related pages

• List of phonetics topics

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