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Labial consonant

Labial consonants are consonants in which one or both lips are the active articulator. The two common labial articulations are bilabials, articulated using both lips, and labiodentals, articulated with the lower lip against the upper teeth, both of which are present in English. A third labial articulation is dentolabials, articulated with the upper lip against the lower teeth, normally only found in pathological speech. Generally precluded are linguolabials, in which the tip of the tongue contacts the posterior side of the upper lip, making them coronals, though sometimes, they behave as labial consonants.

Lack of labials
While most languages make use of labial consonants, a few lack them. Examples are Tlingit, Eyak (both Na-Dené), Wichita (Caddoan), and the Iroquoian languages except Cherokee. Many of these languages have phonemic and labialized consonants or are transcribed as such. However, the sounds involved are not always articulated fully with the lips. In the Iroquoian languages, for example, involves little apparent rounding of the lips. The now-extinct Tillamook language is an example of a language with "rounded" consonants and vowels that do not have any actual phonetic labialization. All of these languages have seen labials introduced under the influence of English. ==See also==
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