In phonetics, a bilabial consonant is a consonant articulated with both lips. The bilabial consonants identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) are:
| IPA | Description | Example | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Language | Orthography | IPA | Meaning | ||
| bilabial nasal | English | man | [<span style="color:#700000">'''{{IPA|m}}'''</span>{{IPA|æn}}] | man | |
| voiceless bilabial plosive | English | spin | [{{IPA|s}}<span style="color:#700000">'''{{IPA|p}}'''</span>{{IPA|ɪn}}] | spin | |
| voiced bilabial plosive | English | bed | [<span style="color:#700000">'''{{IPA|b}}'''</span>{{IPA|ɛd}}] | bed | |
| voiceless bilabial fricative | Japanese | 富士山 (fujisan) | [<span style="color:#700000">'''{{IPA|ɸ}}'''</span>{{IPA|uʥisaɴ}}] | Mount Fuji | |
| voiced bilabial fricative | Ewe | ɛʋɛ | [{{IPA|ɛ̀}}<span style="color:#700000">'''{{IPA|β}}'''</span>{{IPA|ɛ̀}}] | Ewe | |
| bilabial approximant | Spanish | lobo | [{{IPA|lo}}<span style="color:#700000">'''{{IPA|β̞}}'''</span>{{IPA|o}}] | wolf | |
| bilabial trill | |||||
| bilabial click | |||||
Owere Igbo has a six-way contrast among bilabial plosives: . Approximately 0.7% of the world's languages lack bilabial consonants at all; these include Tlingit, Chipewyan, Oneida, and Wichita [1] .