The voiced bilabial trill is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents the sound is ⟨ʙ⟩, a small capital version of the Latin letter b, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is.

Features

Features of the voiced bilabial trill: In most instances, it is only found as the trilled release of a prenasalized stop.

Varieties

Occurrences

The Knorkator song "[Buchstabe]" (the actual title is a glyph) on the 1999 album Hasenchartbreaker uses a similar sound (though linguolabial instead of bilabial) to replace "br" in a number of German words (e.g. for Bratkartoffeln).

Prenasalized

Prestopped trills and stops with trill release

Phonology

In many of the languages in which the bilabial trill occurs, it occurs only as part of a prenasalized bilabial stop with trilled release,. That developed historically from a prenasalized stop before a relatively high back vowel like. In such instances, the sounds are usually still limited to the environment of a following. However, the trills in Mangbetu may precede any vowel and are sometimes preceded by only a nasal.