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Voiced bilabial fricative

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Voiced bilabial fricative
βべーた
IPA Number127
Audio sample
Encoding
Entity (decimal)β
Unicode (hex)U+03B2
X-SAMPAB
Braille⠨ (braille pattern dots-46)⠃ (braille pattern dots-12)
Voiced bilabial approximant
βべーた̞
ʋ̟
Audio sample

The voiced bilabial fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨βべーた⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is B. The official symbol ⟨βべーた⟩ is the Greek letter beta.

This letter is also often used to represent the bilabial approximant, though that is more precisely written with a lowering diacritic, that is ⟨βべーた̞⟩. That sound may also be transcribed as an advanced labiodental approximant ⟨ʋ̟⟩, in which case the diacritic is again frequently omitted, since no contrast is likely.[1][2] It has been proposed that either a turned ⟨βべーた⟩ (approximately 𐅸) or reversed ⟨βべーた⟩ be used as a dedicated symbol for the bilabial approximant, but despite occasional usage this has not gained general acceptance.[3]

It is extremely rare for a language to make a phonemic contrast between the voiced bilabial fricative and the bilabial approximant. The Mapos Buang language of New Guinea contains this contrast. Its bilabial approximant is analyzed as filling a phonological gap in the labiovelar series of the consonant system rather than the bilabial series.[4] Proto-Germanic[5] and Proto-Italic[6] are also reconstructed as having had this contrast, albeit with [βべーた] being an allophone for another consonant in both cases. In Bashkir language, it is an intervocal allophone of /b/, and it is contrastive with /w/: балабыҙ [bɑɫɑˈβべーたɯð] 'our child', балауыҙ [bɑɫɑˈwɯð] 'wax'.

The bilabial fricative is diachronically unstable (likely to be considerably varied between dialects of a language that makes use of it) and is likely to shift to [v].[7]

The sound is not the primary realization of any sound in English dialects except for Chicano English, but it can be produced by approximating the normal English [v] between the lips; it can also sometimes occur as an allophone of /v/ after bilabial consonants.

Features

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Features of the voiced bilabial fricative:

Occurrence

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Voiced bilabial fricative

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Language Word IPA Meaning Notes
Akei [βべーたati] 'four'
Alekano hanuva [hɑnɯβべーたɑ] 'nothing'
Angor fufung [ɸuβべーたuŋ] 'horn'
Bengali Eastern dialects ভিসা [βべーたisa] 'Visa' Allophone of /v/ in Bangladesh and Tripura; /bʱ/ used in Western dialects.
Berta [βべーたɑ̀lɑ̀ːziʔ] 'no'
Catalan[8] abans [əˈβべーたans] 'before' Approximant or fricative. Allophone of /b/. Mainly found in betacist (/b/ and /v/ merging) dialects. See Catalan phonology
Chinese dialects Fuzhou[9] 初はつ八はち
chĕ̤ báik		 [t͡sœ˥˧βべーたaiʔ˨˦] 'eighth day of the month' Allophone of /p/ and /pʰ/ in certain intervocalic positions.[9]
Suburban Shanghainese 碗わん盞
ve tse		 [βべーたe̝˧˧˦tsɛ̝˥] 'bowl' Usually [ɦu] or [u] in other Wu dialects[10]
Comorian upvendza [uβべーたendza] 'to love' Contrasts with both [v] and [w]
Coptic Bohairic ⲧⲱⲃⲓ [ˈdoːβべーたi] 'brick' Shifted to [w] with a syllable coda allophone of [b] in a later stage.
Sahidic ⲧⲱⲱⲃⲉ [ˈtoːβべーたə]
Dahalo[11] [koːβべーたo] 'to want' Weak fricative or approximant. It is a common intervocalic allophone of /b/, and may be simply a plosive [b] instead.[11]
English Some dialects upvote [ˈʌpˌβべーたoʊt] 'upvote' Less-common allophone of /v/ after [p], [b], or [m] (the more-common alteration being the shifting of the earlier consonant to [p̪], [b̪], or [ɱ], respectively, although [p̪v]/[b̪v]/[ɱv] exist in free variation with [pβべーた]/[bβべーた]/[mβべーた]).
Chicano very [βべーたɛɹi] 'very' May be realized as [b] instead.
Ewe[12] Eʋe [èβべーたe] 'Ewe' Contrasts with both [v] and [w]
Fijian ivava [iβべーたa:βべーたa:] 'shoe'
German[13][14] aber [ˈaːβべーたɐ] 'but' Intervocalic and pre-lateral allophone of /b/ in casual speech.[13][14] See Standard German phonology
Hopi tsivot [tsi:βべーたot] 'five'
Japanese[15] 神戸こうべ/kōbe [ko̞ːβべーたe̞] 'Kobe' Allophone of /b/ only in fast speech between vowels. See Japanese phonology
Kabyle bri [βべーたri] 'to cut'
Kinyarwanda abana [aβべーたa:na] 'children'
Korean 추후/chuhu/追おい後のち [ˈt͡ɕʰuβべーたʷu] 'later' Intervocalic allophone of /h/ before /u/ and /w/. See Korean phonology
Luhya Wanga Dialect Nabongo [naβべーたonɡo] 'title for a king'
Mapos Buang[4] venġévsën [βべーたəˈɴɛβべーたt͡ʃen] 'prayer' Mapos Buang has both a voiced bilabial fricative and a bilabial approximant as separate phonemes. The fricative is transcribed as ⟨v⟩, and the approximant as ⟨w⟩.[4]
Nepali सभा [sʌβべーたä] 'Meeting' Allophone of /bʱ/. See Nepali phonology
Portuguese European[16][17] sábado [ˈsaβべーたɐðu] 'Saturday' Allophone of /b/. See Portuguese phonology
Ripuarian Colognian[citation needed] wing [βべーたɪŋ] 'wine' Allophone of syllable-initial /v/ for some speakers; can be [ʋ ~ w ~ ɰ] instead.[citation needed] See Colognian phonology
Sardinian Logudorese[18] paba [ˈpäːβべーたä]ⓘ 'pope' Intervocalic allophone of /b/ as well as word-initial /p/ when the preceding word ends with a vowel and there is no pause between the words.[18]
Turkish[19] vücut [βべーたy̠ˈd͡ʒut̪] 'body' Allophone of /v/ before and after rounded vowels.[19] See Turkish phonology
Turkmen watan [βべーたatan] 'country'
Venda[20] davha /daβべーたa/ 'work party held by one who wants to have the land ploughed or cultivated' Contrasts with /v/ and /w/
Zapotec Tilquiapan[21] [example needed] Allophone of /b/

Bilabial approximant

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Language Word IPA Meaning Notes
Amharic[22] አበባ [aβべーた̞əβべーた̞a] 'flower' Allophone of /b/ medially between sonorants.[22]
Asturian abanicu [aβべーた̞aˈniku] 'swing' Allophone of /b/
Basque[23] alaba [alaβべーた̞a] 'daughter' Allophone of /b/
Catalan[8] abans [əˈβべーた̞ans] 'before' Approximant or fricative. Allophone of /b/. Mainly found in betacist (/b/ and /v/ merging) dialects. See Catalan phonology
Japanese 私わたし/watashi [βべーた̞ätäɕi] 'me' Usually represented phonemically as /w/.[24] See Japanese phonology
Kyrgyz ооба [оːˈβべーた̞a] 'yes' Allophone of /b/ medially between vowels.
Limburgish[25][26] wèlle [ˈβべーた̞ɛ̝lə] 'to want' The example word is from the Maastrichtian dialect.
Lombard el nava via [el ˈnaβべーた̞a ˈβべーた̞ia] 'he was going away' Regular pronunciation of /v/ when intervocalic. Used also as an allophone for other positions.
Mapos Buang[4] wabeenġ [βべーた̞aˈᵐbɛːɴ] 'kind of yam' Mapos Buang has both a voiced bilabial fricative and a bilabial approximant as separate phonemes. The fricative is transcribed as {v}, and the approximant as {w}.[4]
Occitan Gascon lavetz [laˈβべーた̞ets] 'then' Allophone of /b/
Ripuarian Kerkrade[27] sjwaam [ʃβべーた̞aːm] 'smoke' Weakly rounded; contrasts with /v/.[27] See Kerkrade dialect phonology
Spanish[28] lava [ˈläβべーた̞ä] 'lava' Ranges from close fricative to approximant.[29] Allophone of /b/. See Spanish phonology
Swedish Central Standard[30] aber [ˈɑːβべーた̞eɾ] 'problem' Allophone of /b/ in casual speech. See Swedish phonology
Ukrainian[31] вона [βべーた̞oˈnɑ] 'she' An approximant; the most common prevocalic realization of /w/. Can vary with labiodental [ʋ].[31] See Ukrainian phonology

Usage in Persian

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This consonantal sound in Persian was once presented by the letter the letter ve and today, it is no longer in use. The example is archaic زڤان /zaβべーたɑn/ > زبان /zæbɒn/ 'language'[32]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Ladefoged, Peter (1968). A Phonetic Study of West African Languages: An Auditory-instrumental Survey. p. 26.
  2. ^ Joyce Thambole Mogatse Mathangwane (1996). Phonetics and Phonology of Ikalanga: A Diachronic and Synchronic Study (PhD thesis). Berkeley: University of California. p. 79.
  3. ^ Ball, Martin J.; Howard, Sara J.; Miller, Kirk (2018). "Revisions to the extIPA chart". Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 48 (2): 155–164. doi:10.1017/S0025100317000147. S2CID 151863976.
  4. ^ a b c d e Mose Lung Rambok; Hooley, Bruce (2010). Central Buang‒English Dictionary (PDF). Summer Institute of Linguistics Papua New Guinea Branch. ISBN 978-9980-0-3589-9. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-11-10.
  5. ^ Fulk, R.D. (2018). A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages. Studies in Germanic Linguistics. Vol. 3. Amsterdam: Benjamins. p. 102. doi:10.1075/sigl.3. ISBN 978 90 272 6312 4.
  6. ^ Silvestri, Domenico (1998). "The Italic Languages". In Ramat, Anna Giacalone; Ramat, Paolo (eds.). The Indo-European languages. Taylor & Francis Group. pp. 322–344.
  7. ^ Picard (1987:364), citing Pope (1966:92)
  8. ^ a b Wheeler (2005:10)
  9. ^ a b Zhuqing (2002:?)
  10. ^ Zhao, Yuan Ren (1928). 現代げんだい吳くれ語ご的てき研究けんきゅう "Study on Modern Wu Chinese". 商務しょうむ印しるし書しょ館かん. ISBN 9787100086202.
  11. ^ a b Maddieson et al. (1993:34)
  12. ^ Ladefoged (2005:156)
  13. ^ a b Krech et al. (2009:108)
  14. ^ a b Sylvia Moosmüller (2007). "Vowels in Standard Austrian German: An Acoustic-Phonetic and Phonological Analysis" (PDF). p. 6. Retrieved March 9, 2013.. This source mentions only intervocalic [βべーた].
  15. ^ Okada (1999:118)
  16. ^ Cruz-Ferreira (1995:92)
  17. ^ Mateus & d'Andrade (2000:11)
  18. ^ a b (Italian) http://www.antoninurubattu.it/rubattu/grammatica-sarda-italiano-sardo.html Archived 2015-01-01 at the Wayback Machine
  19. ^ a b Göksel & Kerslake (2005:6)
  20. ^ Madiba, M; Nkomo, D (2010-12-13). "The Tshivenda–English Thalusamaipfi/Dictionary as a Product of South African Lexicographic Processes". Lexikos. 20 (1). doi:10.4314/lex.v20i1.62719. hdl:11427/8892. ISSN 1684-4904.
  21. ^ Merrill (2008:109)
  22. ^ a b Hayward & Hayward (1999:48)
  23. ^ Hualde (1991:99–100)
  24. ^ Maekawa (2020).
  25. ^ Gussenhoven & Aarts (1999:155)
  26. ^ Peters (2006:117)
  27. ^ a b Stichting Kirchröadsjer Dieksiejoneer (1997:17)
  28. ^ Martínez-Celdrán, Fernández-Planas & Carrera-Sabaté (2003:257)
  29. ^ Phonetic studies such as Quilis (1981) have found that Spanish voiced stops may surface as spirants with various degrees of constriction. These allophones are not limited to regular fricative articulations, but range from articulations that involve a near complete oral closure to articulations involving a degree of aperture quite close to vocalization
  30. ^ Engstrand (2004:167)
  31. ^ a b Žovtobrjux & Kulyk (1965:121–122)
  32. ^ "PERSIAN LANGUAGE i. Early New Persian". Iranica Online. Retrieved 18 March 2019.

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