b [p]

2 examples

North Slavey, Deline  -  Phoneme: b [p]  -  IPA: Voiceless / unaspirated bilabial plosive. 

Word: bégǫnę́ [pɛ́kõnɛ̃́] "dried meat"  -  Speaker: SP5

This is an example of a b [p] sound in initial position in the word, this sound is voiceless. Note that the g [k] sound, in stem initial position is also voiceless.


Word: denebé [tɛnepɪ́] "abdomen"  -  Speaker: SP5

This is the b [p] sound in stem initial position between two vowels. This sound is also clearly voiceless.



 
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