mː vs ɸ̃

Voiced Bilabial Nasal vs Voiceless Bilabial Nasal

How these sounds differ

mː

Voiced Bilabial Nasal

Voicing: voiced
Place: bilabial
Manner: nasal
Class: consonant
In languages: 36 / 500

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ɸ̃

Voiceless Bilabial Nasal

Voicing: voiceless
Place: bilabial
Manner: nasal
Class: consonant
In languages: 0 / 500

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Cross-linguistic distribution

Languages with mː

Languages with both

Languages with ɸ̃

0 languages in our database contrast both sounds as distinct phonemes. Languages that have one but not the other tend to merge them into a single phoneme — meaning speakers of those languages often struggle to hear the distinction when learning a language that contrasts them.

Has mː, not ɸ̃ (20)

Nara Language isolate Chamorro Austronesian Maranungku Western Daly Auyana Nuclear Trans New Guinea Inuit Eskimo-Aleut Delaware Algic Karok Language isolate Zuni Language isolate Goajiro Arawakan Ocaina Huitotoan Moroccan Arabic Afro-Asiatic Maltese Afro-Asiatic Kadugli (Miri) Kadugli-Krongo Songhai Songhay Mahas-Fiyadikka Nubian Yakut Turkic !XU Kxa Border Kuna Chibchan Hindi-Urdu Indo-European Bengali Indo-European