Letter L

Labial sounds

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The lips are not only anatomic features of note, they are organs of speech essential to certain articulations.

A sound requiring the participation of one or both lips is a labial (labium in Latin means lip) sound or, simply, a labial.

All labials are consonants.

There are bilabial sounds such as 'p' which involve both lips and labiodental sounds such as 'v' which involve the upper teeth and lower lip

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