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{{Infobox IPA|ipa-number=114|decimal=109|xsampa=m|kirshenbaum=m}}
{{redirect|Bilabial nasal|the voiceless consonant|Voiceless bilabial nasal}}
The '''voiced bilabial nasal''' is a type of [[consonant]]. It is used in almost all [[spoken language]]s. The letter for this sound in the [[International Phonetic Alphabet]] is ⟨{{IPA|m}}⟩. The [[X-SAMPA]] symbol for this sound is <tt>⟨m⟩</tt>.  The [[English language|English]] language has this sound, and it is the sound represented by "m" in ''map'' and ''rum''.

Nearly all languages contain this sound. A few languages (for example, [[Mohawk language|Mohawk]]) do not often use this sound.

== Features ==
{{consonants|pulmonic|voiced|bilabial|nasal}}

== Examples ==

{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="2"|Language !! Word !! [[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]]!! Meaning
|-
| | [[Arabic language|Arabic]]|||[[Modern Standard Arabic|Standard]]<ref>{{citation
|last=Thelwall
|first=Robin
|year=1990
|title=Illustrations of the IPA: Arabic
|journal=Journal of the International Phonetic Association
|volume=20
|issue=2
|page=37
|doi=10.1017/S0025100300004266
|s2cid=243640727
}}</ref> |||  {{lang|ar|[[Arabic alphabet|مطابخ]]}} |||  {{IPA|[mɑˈtˤɑːbiχ]}}|||'kitchens'
|-
| colspan="2" | [[Catalan language|Catalan]]<ref>{{citation
|last1=Carbonell
|first1=Joan F.
|last2=Llisterri
|first2=Joaquim
|year=1992
|title=Catalan
|journal=Journal of the International Phonetic Association
|volume=22
|issue=1–2
|page=53
|doi=10.1017/S0025100300004618
|s2cid=249411809
}}</ref>|||  {{lang|ca|[[Catalan orthography|'''m'''are]]}} |||  {{IPA|[ˈmaɾə]}}||| 'mother'
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[Chinese language|Chinese]]|| | [[Cantonese Chinese|Cantonese]] |||  {{lang|zh-Hani|[[Chinese Characters|晚]]}}/{{transl|zh|[[Jyutping|'''m'''aan5]]}} |||  {{IPA|[maːn˩˧]}}|||  'night'
|-
| | [[Mandarin Chinese|Mandarin]] |||  {{lang|zh-Hani|[[Chinese Characters|母親]]}}/{{transl|zh|[[Pinyin|'''m'''ǔqīn]]}} |||  {{IPA|[mu˨˩ tɕʰin˥]}}|||  'mother'
|-
| colspan="2" | [[Dutch language|Dutch]]<ref>{{citation
|last=Gussenhoven
|first=Carlos
|year= 1992
|title=Dutch
|journal=Journal of the International Phonetic Association
|volume=22
|issue=2
|page=45
|doi=10.1017/S002510030000459X
|s2cid=243772965
}}</ref> |||  {{lang|nl|[[Dutch orthography|'''m'''ond]]}} |||  {{IPA|[mɔnt]}}|||  'mouth'
|-
| colspan="2" | [[English language|English]] |||  {{lang|en|[[English orthography|hi'''m''']]}} |||  {{IPA|[hɪm]}}|||  'him'
|-
| colspan="2" | [[Finnish language|Finnish]] |||  {{lang|fi|[[Finnish orthography|'''m'''inä]]}} ||  |  {{IPA|[minæ]}}|||  'I'
|-
| colspan="2" | [[French language|French]]<ref>{{citation
|last1=Fougeron
|first1=Cecile
|last2=Smith
|first2=Caroline L
|year=1993
|title=Illustrations of the IPA:French
|journal=Journal of the International Phonetic Association
|volume=23
|issue=2
|page=73
|doi=10.1017/S0025100300004874
|s2cid=249404451
}}</ref> |||  {{lang|fr|[[French orthography|'''m'''anger]]}} |||  {{IPA|[mɑ̃ʒe]}}|||  'to eat'
|-
| colspan="2" | [[Georgian language|Georgian]]<ref>{{citation
|last1=Shosted
|first1=Ryan K.
|last2=Vakhtang
|first2=Chikovani
|year=2006
|title=Standard Georgian
|journal=Journal of the International Phonetic Association
|volume=36
|issue=2
|page=255
|doi = 10.1017/S0025100306002659
|s2cid=53481687
}}</ref> |||  {{lang|ka|[[Georgian alphabet|სა'''მ'''ი]]}} |||  {{IPA|[ˈsɑmi]}}|||'three'
|-
| colspan="2" | [[Greek language|Greek]]<ref>{{Citation
|last=Newton
|first=Brian
|year=1972
|title=The generative Interpretation of Dialect: A Study of Modern Greek Phonology
|series=Cabridge Studies in Linguistics
|volume=8
|publisher=Cambridge University Press
|page=10
}}</ref> |||  {{lang|el|[[Greek alphabet|'''μ'''άζα]]}}/{{transl|el|[[Romanization of Greek|'''m'''aza]]}} |||  {{IPA|[ˈmaza]}}|||  'clump'
|-
| colspan="2" | [[Hawaiian language|Hawaiian]]<ref name="Ladefoged">{{Citation
|last=Ladefoged
|first=Peter
|author-link=Peter Ladefoged
|year=2005
|title=Vowels and Consonants
|edition=Second
|publisher=Blackwell
|pages=139, 165
}}</ref>|||  {{lang|haw|[[Hawaiian alphabet|'''m'''aka]]}} |||{{IPA|[maka]}}  |||  'eye'
|-
| colspan="2" | [[Indonesian language|Indonesian]]<ref>{{citation
|last1=Soderberg
|first1=Craig D.
|last2=Olson
|first2=Kenneth S.
|title=Illustrations of the IPA:Indonesian
|year=2008
|journal=Journal of the International Phonetic Association
|volume=38
|issue=2
|pages=210
|doi=10.1017/S0025100308003320
|s2cid=232349531
}}</ref>|||  {{lang|id|[[Latin alphabet|'''m'''asuk]]}} |||{{IPA|[ˈmasuʔ]}}  |||  'enter'
|-
| colspan="2" | [[Italian language|Italian]]<ref>{{citation
|last1=Rogers
|first1=Derek
|last2=d'Arcangeli
|first2=Luciana
|year=2004
|title=Italian
|journal=Journal of the International Phonetic Association
|volume=34
|issue=1
|page=117
|doi = 10.1017/S0025100304001628
|s2cid=232345223
}}</ref> |||  {{lang|it|[[Italian alphabet|'''m'''a'''mm'''a]]}} |||  {{IPA|[ˈmamma]}}|||  'mamma'
|-
| colspan="2" | [[Japanese language|Japanese]]<ref>{{citation
|last = Okada
|first = Hideo
|year= 1991
|title=Phonetic Representation:Japanese
|journal=Journal of the International Phonetic Association
|volume=21
|issue=2
|page=94
|doi = 10.1017/S002510030000445X
|s2cid = 242782215
}}</ref> |||  [[kanji|乾杯]]/{{transl|ja|[[Romanization of Japanese|ka'''m'''pai]]}} |||  {{IPA|[kampai]}}|||  'a toast'
|-
| colspan="2" | [[Malay language|Malay]] || | {{lang|ms|[[Malay alphabet|'''m'''ala'''m''']]}} || | {{IPA|[malam]}} || | 'night'
|-
| colspan="2" |[[Malayalam language|Malayalam]]<ref name="Ladefoged"/> || |{{lang|ml|[[Malayalam script|കമ്മി]]}} || |{{IPA|[kəmmi]}} || |'shortage'
|-
| colspan="2" | [[Polish language|Polish]]<ref>{{citation
|last = Jassem
|first = Wiktor
|year= 2003
|title=Polish
|journal=Journal of the International Phonetic Association
|volume=33
|issue=1
|page=103
|doi = 10.1017/S0025100303001191
|s2cid = 232349472
}}</ref> |||  {{lang|pl|[[Polish orthography|'''m'''asa]]}} |||  {{Audio-IPA|Pl-masa.ogg|[ˈmasa]}}||| 'mass'
|-
| colspan="2" | [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]]<ref>{{citation
|last=Cruz-Ferreira
|first=Madalena
|year= 1995
|title=European Portuguese
|journal=Journal of the International Phonetic Association
|volume=25
|issue=2
|page=91
|doi=10.1017/S0025100300005223
|s2cid=249414876
}}</ref> |||  {{lang|pt|[[Portuguese orthography|'''m'''ato]]}} |||  {{IPA|[ˈmatu]}}|||  'bush'
|-
| colspan="2" | [[Russian language|Russian]]<ref>{{citation
|last =Padgett
|first= Jaye
|year= 2003
|title= Contrast and Post-Velar Fronting in Russian
|journal= Natural Language & Linguistic Theory
|volume=21
|issue=1
|page=42
|doi =10.1023/A:1021879906505
|s2cid= 13470826
}}</ref> |||  {{lang|ru|[[Russian orthography|'''м'''уж]]}} |||  {{IPA|[muʂ]}}|||  'husband'
|-
| colspan="2" | [[Spanish language|Spanish]]<ref>{{citation
|last1 = Martínez-Celdrán
|first1= Eugenio
|last2 = Fernández-Planas
|first2= Ana Ma.
|last3 = Carrera-Sabaté
|first3 = Josefina
|year= 2003
|title=Castilian Spanish
|journal=Journal of the International Phonetic Association
|volume=33
|issue=2
|page=255
|doi = 10.1017/S0025100303001373
|s2cid= 232344066
}}</ref> |||  {{lang|es|[[Spanish orthography|gru'''m'''ete]]}} |||  {{IPA|[ɡɾuˈme̞te̞]}}|||  'cabin boy'
|-
| colspan="2" | [[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]]<ref>{{citation
|last=Thompson
|first=Laurence
|year=1959
|title=Saigon phonemics
|journal=Language
|volume=35
|issue=3
|pages=458–461
|doi=10.2307/411232
|jstor=411232
}}</ref> ||| {{lang|vi|[[Vietnamese alphabet|'''m'''uối]]}} ||| {{IPA|[mwoj˧ˀ˥]}}||| 'salt'
|-
| | [[Zapotec language|Zapotec]]||| [[Tilquiapan Zapotec|Tilquiapan]]<ref>{{citation
|last=Merrill
|first=Elizabeth
|year=2008
|title=Tilquiapan Zapotec
|journal=Journal of the International Phonetic Association
|volume=38
|issue=1
|page=108
|doi=10.1017/S0025100308003344
|s2cid=232350024
}}</ref>|||  {{lang|mis|'''m'''an}}|||  {{IPA|[maŋ]}}|||  'animal'
|}

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