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Voiceless bilabially post-trilled dental stop | |
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t̪ʙ̥ | |
Encoding | |
X-SAMPA | tB/ |
The voiceless bilabially post-trilled dental stop is a very rare consonantal sound reported to occur in a few spoken languages: the Oro Win and Wariʼ languages in South America and Sangtam in Northeast India. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨t̪ʙ̥⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is t_dB\_0.
Features of the voiceless bilabially post-trilled dental stop:
Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
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Oro Win | |||||
Pirahã | |||||
Sangtam | 'plate' | Contrasts /t͡ʙ̥, t͡ʙ̥ʰ/. | |||
Wari' | 'to be pleasant' | Forms a minimal pair with , which means 'to paint' |