| In English, b and p are bilabial stops, d and t are alveolar stops, g and k are velar stops. |
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| In English, w normally represents a voiced bilabial semi-vowel, produced by rounding and then opening the lips before a full vowel, whose value may be affected. |
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| Finally, contrastive words with the feature were also among the easiest 10 words, and so were words that contained the before bilabial stop feature. |
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| There are bilabial and coronal nasals, with homorganic variants with all the obstruants. |
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| A few languages such as Banda have a bilabial flap as the preferred allophone of what is elsewhere a labiodental flap. |
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| It represents the voiced bilabial stop in many languages, including English. |
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| In some other languages, it is used to represent other bilabial consonants. |
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