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Phoneme Of The Week #1: The Voiced Labiodental Nasal
/ɱ/
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Per Phoible, this sound occurs phonemically in 18 languages. This sound is very similar to the bilabial nasal, /m/, but instead of two lips touching, the upper teeth touch the bottom lip.
/ɱ/ is overwhelmingly an allophone to its fronter sibling /m/ when positioned before other labiodental consonants, such as /f/ and /v/. English speakers might find this sound to be in "symphony", "circumvent", "harmful". This sound on Wikipedia
This sound on Phoible
Glottist's notes: When I first saw this symbol in the beginnings of my interest in phonetics, I interpreted it as a velar bilabial nasal, as that hook on the bottom of our beloved labiodental nasal is borrowed from symbol for the velar nasal. While the labiovelar nasal occurs in 92 languages, co-articulation was at the time hard for me to even fathom.
guys i think i just discovered a new consonant
ok so you know the /f/ sound is usually formed by putting your lip to your teeth? well a while back i got curious and wondered what would happen if you made a consonant sound with just your teeth touching and it made what i'm pretty sure is a completely unique sound. like it's not on the ipa chart or anything. i checked.
did i actually come up with a new fucking consonant? am i losing my mind?
(btw if you can't figure out how to make the sound, just wince and treat that like a consonant.)
French is to vowels what Welsh is to consonants
consonants and vowels chart in 한굴
Abjad
I’m going to pull a ‘Well, akshually’ and tell you the Phoenician alphabet isn’t quite an alphabet. It’s an abjad. An abjad has consonants but no vowels—no A, E, I, O, U or sometimes Y. You were expected to know how words are pronounced and supply the vowels yourself when you read something written in the Phoenician system. The word ‘abjad’ comes from smooshing together the first four letters of…
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This is the consonant inventory for my proto-lang “пи́му насу”! Thoughts?
