labial consonant in a sentence
Examples
- The Roman Emperor Claudius proposed introducing a new letter into the Latin alphabet to transcribe the so-called " sonus medius " ( a short vowel before labial consonants ), but in inscriptions, the new letter was sometimes used for Greek upsilon instead.
- The hiragana ? is an N, but it is pronounced more like an M when it comes before a labial consonant such as B . That is, it's easier to say NAMB than NANB, so some people like to write NAMBARA in English letters.
- The Proto-Iranian syllabic rhotic * r % is lost in Bactrian, and is reflected as " ?? " adjacent to labial consonants, " ?? " elsewhere; this agrees with the development in the western Iranian languages Parthian and Middle Persian.
- As well, the pharyngealised labial consonants are almost exclusively noted in words where they are associated with another pharyngealised consonant ( for instance,'handful'), but are occasionally found outside this context ( for example, the verb root'to explode, to burst').
- Latvian however does not have assimilative palatalization of consonants and the term " iotation " is used strictly in the sense of stem-final labial consonants being " affixed with an iota " ( i . e ., the letter ?J?) in 2nd, 5th and 6th declension nouns.
- :: : : In my dialect, historical / u?r / does not unconditionally merge with historical / \ ?r /, but it also does not usually have lip-rounding ( unless perhaps in some cases when next to labial consonants, or when consciously trying to emphasize the contrast with historical / \ ?r / ).
- Many instances of m before a labial consonant are similarly motivated . w after a passive / reflexive prefix m-often drops . w often vocalizes to u : or o : or drops ( depending on preceding material ) : tu :-causative plus wvshta : gu :'work'is tu : vshta : gu :'make work'. y is also relatively labile-after reduced-ata->-vhr-the suffix-yella'to leave off'becomes-chella.
- Unlike the passive articulation, which is a continuum, there are five discrete active articulators : the lip ( " labial consonants " ), the flexible front of the tongue ( " coronal consonants " : laminal, apical, and subapical ), the middle back of the tongue ( " dorsal consonants " ), the root of the tongue together with the epiglottis ( " pharyngeal " or " radical consonants " ), and the glottis ( " glottal consonants " ).
- :: : : : Yes, I was referring to the online OED, which has " bollock " as the headword for all meanings, " ballock " as a variant, and notes " The ? . forms predominate in early use ( until at least the 17th cent . ), but the ? . forms are now more common . ( The ? . forms are of uncertain phonological development, perhaps showing rounding as a result of the influence of a preceding labial consonant : for some possible parallels see E . J . Dobson Eng.