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Voiceless Bilabial Plosive IPA - Unicode> | align="center" style="font-size: 24px"| | | IPA - image | align="center"| | | X-SAMPA | align="center"|p | | Kirshenbaum | align="center"|p | | colspan="2"|Sound sample | The voiceless bilabial plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is p. The voiceless bilabial plosive in English is spelled with 'p', as in pit or speed. Features of this consonant: Varieties of the voiceless bilabial plosive | IPA !! Description | | style="font-size:24px" align="center"| | plain p | | style="font-size:24px" align="center"| | aspirated p | | style="font-size:24px" align="center"| | palatalized p | | style="font-size:24px" align="center"| | labialized p | | style="font-size:24px" align="center"| | unreleased p | | style="font-size:24px" align="center"| | voiced p | | style="font-size:24px" align="center"| | ejective p | English has both aspirated and plain p, but they are allophones. When p occurs at the beginning of a word or a stressed syllable, like in print, support, or potato, then it is always aspirated. When it occurs at the beginning of an unstressed syllable that isn't at the beginning of a word, like in occupant, vapid, or keeper, then it is always unaspirated. When p occurs in a consonant cluster following s, like in spin, sprain, or suspend, then it is always unaspirated. When it occurs at the end of a word, like in tip, wasp, or telescope, then it is usually unaspirated, and if the word is at the end of an utterance, then the p is often unreleased. In other languages The p sound is a very common sound cross-linguistically. Most languages have at least a plain p, and some distinguish more than one variety. Many Indian languages, such as Hindi, have a two-way contrast between aspirated and plain p. Georgian has aspirated and ejective p. They are distinct phonemes, not allophones. Aspirated p is spelled with ფ. Ejective p is spelled with პ . As in English, in German, plain and aspirated p are allophones. In Ancient Greek, plain and aspirated p were separate phonemes, represented by the letters pi (π) and phi (φ) respectively. In Modern Greek there is no aspirated p, phi having come to be pronounced f.
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