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- noun Plural form of
bilabial .
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In eastern Bantu languages, it is commonplace for proto-Bantu bilabial stops voiced and voiceless to change into labiodental fricatives before close high u and/or i, and I do believe – though this needs to be checked – that in some of these languages, these fricatives are in fact bilabials themselves.
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The consonants are a subset of nasals and plosives, and bilabials, alveoloars, and velars.
PhiLLy RoLL 2008
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