Labial Consonants

Labial consonants are consonants that have the lower lip as the active articulator. There are two types of labial consonants: bilabial and labiodental. Bialbial consonants have the top lip as the passive articulator and labiodental consonants have the top teeth as the passive articulator.

In Orish there is no phonemic distinction between bilabial consonants and labiodental consonants, but there is a gap between the two passive articulators in efficiency in different manners of articulation. The top lip is very efficient for plosives but not very efficient for fricatives, while the top teeth are very efficient for fricatives but not very efficient for plosives. Also, although both of them are efficient for nasals, the top lip is usually more comfortable to use than the top teeth for nasals. And in both places of articulations affricates are uncommon although there are phonemic labial affricates in Orish, and actually they can both be true labiodental or start bilabial and end labiodental. That's why there are both bilabial and labiodental consonants in Orish but no phonemic distinction between the two places of articulation.

Labial Consonants in Orish

 * P - represents the unvoiced bilabial plosive.
 * B - represents the voiced bilabial plosive.
 * M - represents the bilabial nasal.
 * F - represents the unvoiced labiodental fricative.
 * V - represents the voiced labiodental fricative.
 * W - represents the labiovelar approximant.
 * PF - represents the unvoiced labiodental affricate.
 * BV - represents the voiced labiodental affricate.