Labial-velar nasal
| Labial-velar nasal | |
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| ŋ͡m | |
| IPA number | 119 (114) |
| Encoding | |
| Entity (decimal) | ŋ͡m |
| Unicode (hex) | U+014B U+0361 U+006D |
| X-SAMPA | Nm |
| Kirshenbaum | Nm |
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The labial–velar nasal is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ŋ͡m⟩.
The labial–velar nasal is found in West and Central Africa and eastern New Guinea.
Features of the labial-velar nasal:
Some languages, especially in Vanuatu, combine this labial–velar nasal with a labial–velar approximant release, hence [ŋ͡mʷ].
In the Banks Islands languages which have it, the phoneme /ŋ͡mʷ/ is written ⟨m̄⟩ in local orthographies, using a macron on the corresponding bilabial. In other languages of Vanuatu further south (such as South Efate, or Lenakel), the same segment is spelled ⟨m̃⟩ with a combining tilde.
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