| Voiceless bilabial nasal | |
|---|---|
| m̥ | |
| IPA number | 114+402A |
| Audio sample | |
| Encoding | |
| X-SAMPA | m_0 |
| Braille | |
Avoiceless bilabial nasal (stop) is a type ofconsonantal sound, used in somespokenlanguages. The symbol in theInternational Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨m̥⟩, a combination of the letter for thevoiced bilabial nasal and adiacritic indicatingvoicelessness.
Features of a voiceless bilabial nasal:
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aleut[1] | quhmax̂ | [qum̥aχ] | 'white' | Voiced approximants and nasals may be partly devoiced in contact with a voiceless consonant and at the end of a word. | |
| Alutiiq | keghmarluku | [kəɡm̥aχluku] | 'bite it repeatedly' | Contrasts with voiced/m/. | |
| Burmese[2] | မှား/hma: | [m̥á] | 'false' | ||
| Central Alaskan Yup'ik[3] | pisteḿun | [ˈpistəm̥un] | 'to the servant' | ||
| English | RP[4] | stopme | [ˈstɒp͡m̥mɪ] | stop me | |
| Estonian[5] | lehm | [ˈlehm̥] | 'cow' | Word-final allophone of/m/ after/t,s,h/.[5] SeeEstonian phonology | |
| French | prisme | [pχism̥] | 'prism' | Allophone of word-final/m/ after voiceless consonants.[6] SeeFrench phonology | |
| Hmong | White Hmong | 𖬌𖬣𖬵 /Hmoob | [m̥ɔ̃́] | 'Hmong' | Contrasts with voiced/m/. In Green Mong, it has merged with /m/.[7] |
| Icelandic | kempa | [cʰɛm̥pa] | 'hero' | Allophonic variation of/m/ aspiratedplosives. Minimally contrastive with /m/ before voiced plosives:kemba[cʰɛmpa] 'to comb'.[8] SeeIcelandic phonology | |
| Jalapa Mazatec[9] | hma | [m̥a] | 'black' | Contrasts with a voiced and alaryngealized bilabial nasal. | |
| Kildin Sami[10] | лēӎӎьк/ljeehmhmk | [lʲeːm̥ʲːk] | 'strap' | ||
| Muscogee | camhcá:ka | [t͡ʃəm̥t͡ʃɑːɡə] | 'bell' | Allophone of /m/ before /h/ when in the same syllable.[11] | |
| Northern Sámi | čáihmi | [ˈt͡ʃaːjːm̥iː] | 'freckle' | ||
| Ukrainian[12] | ритм/rytm | [rɪt̪m̥] | 'rhythm' | Word-final allophone of/m/ after voiceless consonants.[12] SeeUkrainian phonology | |
| Washo[13] | Mášdɨmmi | [ˈm̥aʃdɨmmi] | 'he's hiding' | ||
| Welsh[14] | fymhen | [vəm̥ɛn] | 'my head' | Occurs as the nasalmutation of/p/. SeeWelsh phonology | |
| Xumi | Lower[15] | [m̥ɛ̃˦] | 'medicine' | Contrasts with the voiced/m/.[15][16] | |
| Upper[16] | |||||
| Yi[17] | ꂓhmi | [m̥i] | 'name' | ||
Les phonèmes nasals sont généralement réalisés comme des consonnes sonores, mais il peut y avoir des réalisations sourdes (rhumatisme prononcé [-sm̥]). Ces réalisations sourdes se rencontrent en particulier en finale absolue, après consonne sourde