• Dr. Bob@lemmy.caEnglish
    12·
    9 months ago

    B, P are bilabial plosives. M is a bilabial fricative. F, V are labio-dental fricatives i.e. teeth and one lip.

    • Slovene
      6·
      9 months ago

      bilabial plosives

      Sounds like someone’s gonna explode a vulva.

    • Taniwha420@lemmy.world
      5·
      9 months ago

      Here’s my man with the real goods. Linguistically these categories explain so many ‘weird’ spelling shifts between cognates.